Figure féminine debout avec pioche ·  Angola, Tchokwé · ID: 3046618

Description

wood, rest.

The hole in the figures navel once contained substances to engage the ancestors supernatural powers on behalf of the owner.

The figure wears a distinctive headgear/ haircut with concentric grooved pattern/ hair strands. Face and body are richly decorated with scarification marks.

A comparable, albeit larger figure, illustrated in Cornet (1978), p. 144 (see also AHDRC 0000212). Headdress, facial features and scarification marks show similarities.

Littérature comparée

Cornet, Joseph, A survey of Zairan Art, The Bronson Collection, Raleigh 1978, p. 145