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Description : Standing female figure Tabwa, D. R. Kongo wood, dark brown patina with residues of black paint, necklace, with straight legs rising from a cuboid base, supporting a waisted trunk with square shoulders and free carved thin arms, crowned by a small head with fine grooved coiffure, skin scarification marks on face, belly and back, slightly dam., paint rubbed off in some areas, on blocklike base, accentuation of the female gender, broad pelvis and bulging abdomen imply the usage of the figure in context with fertility rites. The Tabwa are a small ethnical group, living in the southeast of Zaire, along the southwestern banks of Lake Tanganyika. Their style reflects their geographic location at the East african rift, showing influences of the Luba, the Fipa and the Nyamwezi. H: 33,5 cm, (4788/016) Provenance Coll. Ingo Evers, Bonn, Germany Literature Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, The Handbook, Brüssel 1987, p. 171, ill. 18

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