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wooden figure, hands on hips, nails, blades, screws on chest, abdomen and shoulders, eyes: shell or ceramic, bundle of raffia fabric as skirt, large cowrie snail as "navel", coloured; from the group of nkisi nkondi (Mangaaka)

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Cultural attribution
Yombe
Object type
Holzfigur
Dimensions
H approx. 110 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), iron (metal), cowrie shell, resin (organic material)
carved, painted
Object genre
ritual object
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2594
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 38019 (Old inventory number)
2594 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

when
before 1904
where
Chiloango-Fluss-Region
who
unbekannter Meister aus der Loango-Region - Role not clarified
when
before 1904
where
Republik Kongo
who
Visser, Robert - Owners
when
1904
where
Stuttgart
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
when
15.12.1971
where
Stuttgart
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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