Production
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when
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1875 - 1898
Ntadi/Mintadi | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Ntadi/Mintadi
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Grave guard
Crouching human figure made of soapstone. The left arm is in front of the chest, holding a blanket in its hand across the right shoulder. The eyes and the cap are painted black. Such Mintadi figures, tomb guards, of the Bakongo people from the Boma region in the present Democratic Republic of Congo were produced up until the 1920s as a sign of the deceased's wealth.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Kongo
- Object type
- figures (representations)
- Dimensions
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Height: 270.0 mm
Width: 135.0 mm
Depth: 60.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Steatite, Stonemasonry
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- I/0082
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
when
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1899
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Congo (location/origin)Boma (location/origin)Africa (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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