Seated Chief Playing Thumb Piano (Mwanangana), before 1869, Angola, Chokwe peoples, Wood (Uapaca), cloth, fiber, beads, H. 16 3/4 x W. 4 3/4 x D. 5 1/4 in. (42.5 x 12.1 x 13.3 cm), Wood-Sculpture, By the early nineteenth century, Chokwe chiefs in the savanna of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola had become active trading partners with merchants from Europe and the New World. Profiting from commerce in ivory, rubber, wax, and African slaves, they emerged as important regional rulers whose prestige and power was reflected in the art they commissioned for their courts at this time
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Seated Chief Playing Thumb Piano, Mwanangana, 1869, Angola, Chokwe peoples, Wood, Uapaca, cloth, fiber, beads, H, 16 3/4 x W, 4 x, D, 5 1/4, 42.5 12.1 13.3 cm, Wood-Sculpture, early nineteenth century, chiefs, savanna, present-day Democratic, Republic, Congo, active trading, partners, merchants, Europe, New World, Profiting, commerce, ivory, rubber, wax, African slaves, emerged, important regional, rulers, prestige, power, reflected, art, commissioned, courts, time
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