Title:
Lumbo/Vuvi/Mitsogho Style Reliquary Figure
Object Name:
Figure, Reliquary, Lumbo
Other Name:
Figure, Reliquary, Vuvi / Mitsogho
Place of Origin:
Lumbo, Gabon, Africa
Provenance:
Aboriginal Indigenous Art.
Lumbo artists carved figures influenced by Punu and Kongo styles. Typically, they included reliquary figures which served as guardians of ancestors' bones, kept in baskets. Reliquaries are receptacles for ancestors' bones. Baskets were often used for such purposes and were often decorated with pigments, and adorned with other objects .The vivid features correspond to the statue's function.
Bacquart, P. 116, 118
Lumbo artists carved figures influenced by Punu and Kongo styles. Typically, they included reliquary figures which served as guardians of ancestors' bones, kept in baskets. Reliquaries are receptacles for ancestors' bones. Baskets were often used for such purposes and were often decorated with pigments, and adorned with other objects .The vivid features correspond to the statue's function.
Bacquart, P. 116, 118
Description:
Wooden reliquary figure, carved with full black slightly open lips, small triangular nose and black coffeebean—shaped eyes set under double crescent—shaped eyebrows. Dark brown crisscross—shaped scarification mark on forehead. Small dark brown mohawk—like coiffure atop of head. Entire facial area covered with light brown or tan pigment. Woven wicker or raffia basket below figure, surrounded by branches or sticks and other vegetal substances.
Collection:
Guy Mace Collection, (Turblex Company)
Material:
Wood W/Paint, Raffia and Vegetal Fibers
Used:
Ritually Used
Technique:
Carving / Weaving / Painting
Owned:
Art Department, Missouri Southern State University
Accession#:
2015.2.17
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