M0019126EA: Wooden figure of a mother and child, Bakongo: side view

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Mother and child figure - wood. Lower Congo, Bakongo tribe.

Photograph of a carved wooden figure of a mother and child made by the Bakongo, or Kongo, people Central Africa. Related images: M0019126EB, M0019126EC

August 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R22123

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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