The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Mother-and-Child Figure
late 1800s–early 1900s
Overall: 53.4 x 13.1 x 14.6 cm (21 x 5 3/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
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.- (Guillaume de Hondat, Brussels)
- Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. Reproduced: cat. 37, p. 104 - 105Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa.
Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017 Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 150-151, fig. 126Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display. Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. Mentioned: p. 111. - Object in Focus: Mother and Child Figure, 19th-early 20th century; Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbala people (wood, beads; 1931.426). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 24, 2002).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."African Art. Karamu House, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 30, 1960).Cleveland, Ohio: Karamu House, March 1 - May 30, 1960: "African Art."
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1931.426