Title
Mother-and-Child Figure, late 1800s-early 1900s. Creator: Unknown.
Caption
Mother-and-Child Figure, late 1800s-early 1900s. Wearing an elaborate lobed headdress and a beaded waistbelt, and having filed teeth and red-powdered skin, this maternity figure seems to have once carried an ax and a cup, wooden imitations of the two most important chiefly attributes. Perhaps together with a male counterpart, it was secretly kept inside the ritual house, serving as a guardian of the chief?s treasure. Its style places it in the westernmost corner of Pendeland, between the Lutshima and Kwilu rivers.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19F94_380
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
64,7Mb (2,6Mb) / 12,3in x 20,5in / 3678 x 6144 (300dpi)