Standing Male Healing Figure
Item
- Accession Number
- 2020.15
- Title
- Standing Male Healing Figure
- Ethnic Group
- Yuka
- Subject
- Figure|Healing|Central Africa
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Date
- 20th century
- Medium
- Wood|Palm Oil
- Format
- H x W x D: 9.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 in. (24.13 x 6.35 x 6.35 cm)
- Description
- Standing male medicine or healing figure with a large head containing a stylized headpiece with a hole drilled for fetish material. Facial features include coffee bean-shaped eyes and a large bulbous nose. The thick torso shows its arms and hands joined at the upper chest in a gesture of respect. The remainder of the body shows genitalia and non-descript legs and feet.
- Item sets
- African Art
