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Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

Mbuti

Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

2000

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Mbuti

Painted Barkcloth (Pongo or Murumba)

2000

Physical Qualities Bark, pigment, 29 1/4 × 16 in. (74.3 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2021.216
The Matter of Bark Cloth
"The Matter of Bark Cloth" BMA Today issue 170 (Winter/Spring 2023): p. 9
https://unframed.lacma.org/2018/04/25/new-acquisition-collection-african-ceremonial-barkcloth-paintings

Culture

Mbuti

2000–2000

Congolese
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