Suku
Female Figure
Suku, 1933-1966
Scroll
Suku
Female Figure
Suku, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Wood, natural fiber cloth, cane, 36.7 x 9.5 x 8.3 D cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2002.605
Body wrapped with cloth, a ring of cane around waist. A large, high-domed head. The face cleanly divided down the middle: the proper left-hand side has no features and is painted with red pigment, the proper right-hand side has features but is painted with white pigment. A short, truncated right leg extends beneath the long torso, the left leg carved. Triangular vulva indicated.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Bernice Barth from her husband, Arthur H. Barth; Arthur H. Barth Primitive Art, Beverly Hills, CA; purchased in Europe in the 1960s
