Standing figure with staff ·  Eastern Congo / Western Tanzania, Lake Tanganyika, Tabwa, Ijiji · ID: 3049158

Description

wood, blackened, on stool-like base, rest.

Roberts & Maurer attributed a stylistically comparable figure to a Tabwa workshop, which they located in Tanzania, on the east side of Lake Tanganyika, in the area of Ujiji (cf. Roberts & Maurer, 1985, p. 79, ill. 55). A subgroup of the Tabwa, who became known as the Ijiji, settled here.

In the Weltmuseum in Vienna there is a group of figures collected by the German Navy First Lieutenant Wunderlich, who was stationed in the Lake Tanganyika/ Lake Kivu region between 1914 and 1916. They were also located among the Tabwa or Ijij (AHDRC 0165985).

The object Standing figure with staff with the object ID 3049158 was part of the auction 99th Auction on November 12, 2022, lot number 345 at that time and is currently available for EUR 8,000 in Open sale.

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Comparing literature

Roberts, Allen F. & Evan M. Maurer (ed.), Tabwa, Washington D.C. 1985, S. 79, ill. 55 Plankensteiner, Barbara, Austausch. Kunst aus dem südlichen Afrika um 1900, Wien 1998, p. 125, ill. 84-88