Sculpture

29-12-109

From: Gabon

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-12-109
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Fang
Provenience Gabon
Section African
Materials Wood | Brass
Iconography Female
Description

Female, seated. Wood. Eyeholes, lower part of body, legs, hair blackened (by charring?). Brass strip applied between eye and ear, and brass collar partly surrounds neck over band of red. String of glass beads about neck.

Height 39 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929
Other Number 108 - Other Number

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