Reliquary: Standing Male Figure, 19th century, Gabon or Republic of Congo, Kota peoples, Mbete group, Wood, pigment, metal, cowrie shells, H. 32.5 in. (82.6 cm), Wood-Sculpture, Mbete sculptors developed a figurative reliquary form that fully integrated ancestral sacra within the sculpture. In this tradition, a hollowed columnar torso served as an internal receptacle. That core is framed by the gesture of minimally defined arms held to either side and supported below by knees bent above broad muscular calves
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