Mangbetu Zande statue
Figures of the Mangbetu are rare. They appear individual or in pairs and can be looked upon as representations of ancestors. The shape of the coiffure reflects the lengthened skull which corresponds to the current ideal of beauty the Mangbetu aristocracy always had. (David Zemanek, 2009)
The older figures usually don't have the
elongated heads, like this one that was aleady collected between 1910 and 1930,
and published in 1933.
Provenance: Alex van Opstal was in David Norden's collection (sold)
This
object is classified in the Yale database of African Art nr:0098102
| Culture group: | Mangbetu complex |
| Country: | Congo (Kinshasa) |
| Object name: | Figure |
| Object gender: | anthropomorphic |
| Object posture: | standing |
| Medium: | Wood, glass |
| Size: | h=30 cm |
| Photographer: | Artcurial, Paris, 10 June 2008. ref.129 |
| Photo source: | Paris, 2008 |
| Photo Copyright: | Artcurial, Paris |
Mangbetu-Zande
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| Culture group: | Zande |
| Country: | Congo (Kinshasa) |
| Region: | Uele |
| Object name: | Figure |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Size: | h=27.5 (cm) |
| Other objects in that workshop: | 0042205, 0098102 |
| Photographer: | Jan Picha |
| Photo source: | Erich Herold, 1989 |
| Collection: | Naprstek Museum of
Asian, African and American Cultures, Prague, Czech Republic ( |
| Inventory: | 39.092 |
| Publication(s): | Herold (Erich), "Rites et Coutumes dans l'Art Africain", Paris: Aurore éditions d'art, 1989:158, fig.168 |
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