Standing female figure

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Description

ivory, tribe-typical head, min. dam., fine cracks;
the shape of the deformed head reflects the practice to bandage the childrens heads to achieve a prominent back of the head, which corresponds to the current ideal of beauty the Mangbetu aristocracy always had.

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Littérature comparée

Yale Archive No. 0065616 (comparable object, probably same carver)

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