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Ancestral female figure seated on a chest
Image Not Available for Ancestral female figure seated on a chest

Ancestral female figure seated on a chest

Object number81.17.892
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., pp. 72-73, reproduced pl. 98 (as seated figure).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions9 3/4 x 2 x 1 1/2 in. (24.8 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm)
MediumWood
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
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Female(?) figure
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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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ca. 1800
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Seated female fetish figure
Kongo
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Photo: Paul Macapia
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Photo: Paul Macapia
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Female figure
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