Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Lega Ivory Figure
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Image View:
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Overall view from front
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Creator:
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unknown (Lega sculptor)
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Location:
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exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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19th-20th C. (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Lega
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Style Period:
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Lega
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Work Type 1:
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figurine
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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ivory
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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15 cm (height, approx.)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; human figure
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Description:
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The Lega people (or Warega) are an ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Within a community, a chief inherits his position on a patrilineal basis, and his close relatives have highest rank. Counterbalancing this hereditary structure, the Bwami society also regulates social and political life. This society has seven levels for men and four for women and is open to all. An initiate advances through the ranks through a complex system of instruction, payment and initiation, achieving increasing status. Iginga figures are individually owned by the highest ranking society members, are the most coveted of all initiation objects. Some anthropomorphic figures are called kalimbangoma. Each member of Musagi wa Kindi, a sublevel of the highest Bwami rank, owns a bone or ivory human kalimbangoma figure as a sign of his status. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-DO2-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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