Lot 244: A fine pre-Bembe Hunter ancestral figure

People: Pre-Bembe Hunter groups
DR Congo
H: 15 1/2"
Of powerful form, the figure rendered in columnar form; the rounded head with characteristic face, the torso long with arms cut to the sides and hands at the waist, the short legs bent and on an integral base. Fine and rare example, on a custom mount.
Exhibited: "Remnants of Ritual, Selections from the Gelbard Collection of African Art":
- University Park, IL: Governors State University, February 2003
- Krannert, IL: Krannert Art Museum, 26 August-26 October, 2003
- Kansas City, MO: Belger Art Foundation/University of Missouri-
Kansas City, 2004
- Park Forest, IL: Tall Grass Art Association, 2005


Publication History: Remnants of Ritual, Selections from the Gelbard Collection of African Art, edited by Arthur Bourgeois and Scott Rodolitz, New York: Ethnos, 2003: Pg. 53, Fig.112.

Provenance:
The Gelbard collection, NY

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