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Male Figure   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Male Figure
Description
Its visual impact and workmanship suggest that this figure was used by an extended family rather than an individual. The raffia skirt around the waist and the blue and white beads are indicators of leadership. The metal appliqué covering the face and the metal blades that hedge the headgear refer to the blacksmith, a culture hero celebrated in a Songye myth narrating the formation of the state. The metal strips on the skeletal face are said to relate to lightning, signaling the figure's role as a powerful anti-sorcerer, but the contrast between white iron and red copper symbolically alludes to the ambivalent powers of the figure.
Date 1880
date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Wood, glass beads, brass, copper, iron, human teeth, antelope horn, hide, animal hair, minerals, plant fibers
Dimensions Overall: 64 x 24.5 x 24 cm (25 3/16 x 9 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
African Art
Accession number
2010.451
Place of creation Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Songye people, late 19th-early 20th century
Credit line René and Odette Delenne Collection, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.451

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