figure
- Museum number
- Af1926,1006.1
- Description
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Male seated figure carved in wood; the eyes and ears are inlaid with pottery.
- Production date
- 1920-1925 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres
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Width: 4.10 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register addition referring to nos.1 to 12 by W B Fagg: "Babembe".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Af1926,1006.1 to 36 is a collection formed by Malcolm Allen Crowe, with his headquarters in Kinshasa, between 1920 and 1925, and purchased from Mrs M B L Crowe, perhaps his mother, in 1926. The objects have no recorded place of acquisition beyond the Belgian Congo, and Malcolm Crowe is otherwise unidentified. The attributions to particular grtoups were made in the BM.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1926,1006.1