Figurine
- Museum number:
- 5-1557
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050001557
- Accession number:
- Acc.1302
- Description:
- Carved wooden figurine with grass skirt, Suku “fetish;” Mumbwolu. Height 35.53 cm. Carved by a young man ca. 30-35 years old [as of ca. 1960], who was seen as a competent but not first-class carver. From village near the administrative center of the Secteur Lobo, territoire Feshi. E. Suku. Contemporary. See comment on 5-51154.
- Donor:
- Igor Kopytoff and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Suku
- Culture or time period:
- Suku
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Fetishes and Figurines
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- 1960
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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