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n° 95
Titre : Tabwa Maternity Figure
Dimensions : height 20 1/4 in. 51.5cmProvenance : PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DEBORAH STOKES HAMMER, CHICAGOCollected in the Ujiji region circa 1880Gifted by Victor Wright to the Royal Scottish Museum in 1924Denver Art Museum, 1949Peter Natan, Denver, 1963Ernst Anspach, New YorkLiterature : Walker, African Women/African Art, 1976: 28, catalogue for the exhibition at The African-American Institute, New York, September 13-December 31, 1976Maurer and Roberts, Tabwa: The Rising of a New Moon, 1985: 246, figure 173, catalogue for the exhibition at The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., January-March 1986 (see bibliography for additional venues)Cole, Mother and Child in African Sculpture, 1985: plate 47 catalogue for the exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, December 5, 1985-July 6, 1986Notes : The records of the Royal Scottish Museum (NMS) state the following: 'A.1924.431, Figure of a woman carrying a child on her back, carved in pale soft wood and blackened, standing, naked except for loin cloth of woven grass, grotesquely long neck, incised patterns on body suggesting cicatrices. On circular base. Tanganyika District, East Africa, H. 20 inches. Brought home about forty years ago by the brother of the donor who was stationed at Ujiji, Kawimbi, and Kambole, where the specimens were probably obtained. Given by Mr. Victor Wright.'Tabwa figures from the Ujiji region are rare. Rarer still are maternity figures from this region. See Maurer and Roberts (1985) for further discussion, and the catalogue raisonné (219-278) in which this is the only documented maternity figure.Sotheby's, Salle de vente
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Titre de la vente : African & Oceanic Art
Date de la vente : 14/11/2003
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