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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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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

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

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before 1904
    where
    Chiloango-Fluss-Region
    Republik Kongo
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    unbekannter Meister aus der Loango-Region - Role not clarified
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before 1904
    where
    Republik Kongo
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Visser, Robert - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1904
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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