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Dog

Dog

Maker Kongo
Label TextDogs can make good detectives, with acute senses to follow the path of an enemy. This dog's front legs have been lengthened to emphasize his state of readiness. Such an nkisi (protective image) may have been provided to remind someone to be more decisive.
Object number81.17.840
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., p. 73, reproduced pl. 100 (as seated dog). San Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Kongo Power Figures, Nov. 15, 1989 - Jan. 21, 1990.
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions14 1/4 x 2 15/16 x 6 7/8 in. (36.2 x 7.5 x 17.5 cm)
MediumWood, cloth, resin, camwood powder
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.835
Twin statuette (Ibeji)
Object number: 77.49
Bowl
Unknown artist
Object number: 81.17.492
Object number: 2001.90
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Object number: 2013.20.5
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Object number: 2013.20.6
Photo: Paul Macapia
Object number: 81.17.532