Standing female figure · D. R. Congo, Mbanza · ID: 3042011
Description
wood, middle brown patina, traces of red paint, massive body with an extremely strong and short neck, slanting shoulders and short stump arms, navel and female sex characteristics especially emphasized, linear and dotted tattoos, dam. (nose), missing parts (right arm, both foot tips), rep. (left arm), base;
the Mbanza (Mbanja) live primarily in the Central African Republic and only in smaller fractions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastwards and southwards of the Ubangi River.
The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3042011 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 343 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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Comparing literature
Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk (ed.), Ubangi, Berg en Dal 2008, p. 130
Publications
AHDRC: 0139828