Male Power Figure (Bwanga) attached to a Staff

Date

late 19th or early 20th century

Medium

Wood, antelope horn, seed pods, fiber, and fabric/textile

Dimensions

45.8 × 5.1 × 5.1 cm (18 × 2 × 2 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts

Also notable

Works in the same vein

Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola)

Luluwa Democratic Republic of the Congo Central Africa

Crouching Figure

Luluwa, Nsapo, or Songye Democratic Republic of the Congo Central Africa