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Ceremonial Staff: Head Finial (Kibango)
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Wood iron, Luba peoples
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Purchase Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift 1972
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Stone sculpture; sandstone head. Orange-yellow fine-grained sandstone. Short hair, no fringe, cut around the ears, lumpy appearance as if thick and curly; there is a groove running...
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Footed vessel with hinged top with baluster finial and scroll thumbpiece; cut card decoration on top around finial and around base of vessel; pointed ear-shaped handle; fully hallm...
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre
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Side A: In the center a youth wrapped in a mantle, seated to right on a square object holding in his left a lyre the strings of which are now missing but were originallly applied i...
Master of the Animals Finial
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This “master of animals” finial depicts a stylized man with an (attacking?) animal on each side. The man has a fungiform cap, open at the center for insertion of a pin. The man, wh...