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Bongo Commemorative Female Figure, Belanda Subgroup, Sudan
11 May 2021, 11:00 EDT
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Bongo Commemorative Female Figure, Belanda Subgroup, Sudan
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Wood
height 36 1/2in (92.6cm)
Provenance
Lillian and Robert Bohlen Collection, Detroit
James Stephenson Tribal Art, New York
Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon
Klaus-Jochen Krüger notes, "Women are not usually entitled to a sculpture representing them, because they do not hunt. When there is a pole on a woman's tomb, it is there because a feast of merit has been given in her honor by hunters. . . When hunters wish to heighten the influence of an eminent female personality in the hereafter, they can transfer their feasts to her, and this may account for the presence of carved poles on certain women's tombs." (Tribal Arts #22, Winter/Spring 1999/2000, p. 95).
Of hard, dense wood, the figure standing on the left leg, as the right has old loss from the knee downwards; the rounded torso with conical breast, arms now lost; a cylindrical neck supports the spherical head carved with sensitive features; the patina with ancient natural erosion throughout with semi-glossy patina.
Wood
height 36 1/2in (92.6cm)
Provenance
Lillian and Robert Bohlen Collection, Detroit
James Stephenson Tribal Art, New York
Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon
Klaus-Jochen Krüger notes, "Women are not usually entitled to a sculpture representing them, because they do not hunt. When there is a pole on a woman's tomb, it is there because a feast of merit has been given in her honor by hunters. . . When hunters wish to heighten the influence of an eminent female personality in the hereafter, they can transfer their feasts to her, and this may account for the presence of carved poles on certain women's tombs." (Tribal Arts #22, Winter/Spring 1999/2000, p. 95).
Of hard, dense wood, the figure standing on the left leg, as the right has old loss from the knee downwards; the rounded torso with conical breast, arms now lost; a cylindrical neck supports the spherical head carved with sensitive features; the patina with ancient natural erosion throughout with semi-glossy patina.
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