id:			112818
accession number:	1931.426
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.426
updated:		2022-01-04 15:10:58.662000

Mother-and-Child Figure, late 1800s-early 1900s. Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pende, late 19th-early 20th century. Wood, glass beads, upholstery studs, natural fiber, and pigment; overall: 53.4 x 13.1 x 14.6 cm (21 x 5 3/16 x 5 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House 1931.426

title:				Mother-and-Child Figure
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creation date:			late 1800s-early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1880
creation date latest:		1920
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creditline:			Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House
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culture:	Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pende, late 19th-early 20th century
technique:	Wood, glass beads, upholstery studs, natural fiber, and pigment
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 53.4 x 13.1 x 14.6 cm (21 x 5 3/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Object in Focus:  Mother and Child Figure, 19th-early 20th century; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbala people (wood, beads; 1931.426)
	opening date:   2002-09-17T00:00:00
	<i>Object in Focus:  Mother and Child Figure, 19th-early 20th century; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbala people (wood, beads; 1931.426)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 24, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio: Karamu House, March 1 - May 30, 1960: "African Art."<br>Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17- November 24, 2002.  " Object in Focus:  Mother and Child Figure, 19th-early 20th century; 1931.426."

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PROVENANCE

	(Guillaume de Hondat, Brussels)
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Wearing an elaborate lobed headdress and a beaded waistbelt, and having filed teeth and red-powdered skin, this maternity figure seems to have once carried an ax and a cup, wooden imitations of the two most important chiefly attributes. Perhaps together with a male counterpart, it was secretly kept inside the ritual house, serving as a guardian of the chief’s treasure. Its style places it in the westernmost corner of Pendeland, between the Lutshima and Kwilu rivers.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cole, Herbert M. <em>Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa</em>. <br> Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 150-151, fig. 126
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	Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display.</em> Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 111.
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IMAGES

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