Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Mbanza
sold
EUR 1,000
Size
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
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.
Comparing literature
Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk (ed.), Ubangi, Berg en Dal 2008, p. 130Publications
AHDRC: 0139828