Carved wooden figure of female reclining on rectangular board
- maker:
- Bakongo people
Carved wooden figure of female reclining on rectangular board, in position ready for a clitoridectomy (?), painted, Bakongo tibe, Congolese, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A658224
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Foster