Images(2)

Figure of a chief

Artist Unidentified

19th century

Place of OriginAngola

Medium/TechniqueWood and metal tacks

DimensionsHeight: 38.1 cm (15 in.)

Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel

Accession number2014.291

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Africa and Oceania

ProvenanceBy 1982, private collection, Santiago, Chile [see note 1]. By 1989, private collection, America [see note 2]. October 3, 2003, sold by the Galerie Walu, Zurich, to William Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)

NOTES: [1] As published by Marie-Louise Bastin, La Sculpture Tshokwe (Arcueil, France, 1982), p. 123, fig. 64. According to this article, in the late 19th century, the figure was taken from Angola to Portugal by M. Ferreira; however, this has not been substantiated. [2] Marie-Louise Bastin, “Mwanangana, Une effigie d’un Seigneur Tshokwe,” Arts d’Afrique Noire 72 (Winter, 1989), pp. 12-13, figs. 1-3.