Standing power figure

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Description

wood, stained brown patina, slender elongated forms, the knees peculiar bent backwards, jagged incisions on belly and flanks, drilled hole in the head for insertion of magical substances, slightly dam., cracks (breast, right side of the head), breakage (both wrists), missing parts (feet);
was presumably used as fetish to protect against witchcraft.

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Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 92 f.

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