Bembe, Statuette
Bembe, Statuette
Date
              presumed early XXth
          Size
              Height : 12 cm
          Collection
  
                          
      Tribal Art
      
  
    
  Condition
              very good
          Inventory number
              394
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            Statuette presenting a female figure, arms and legs with powerful muscles, hands and feet symbolically oversized with marked nails. Her belly is embellished with ancestral motifs sculpted in relief representing tegumentary marks obtained by the insertion of charcoal under the skin which caused keloids. Her face has an intense expression, accentuated by tapered ears. She holds a gourd in her hand.
Made of hardwood, old honey and brown patina, small white milk beads embedded in the eyes.
Origin :
- Former French collection.