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Beembe

Standing Female Figure

Bembe, 1933-1966

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Beembe

Standing Female Figure

Bembe, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Wood, ivory, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Jamosil Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number 1989.127
incised, raised designs on shoulders, stomach
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideaologies of the African Body
Thompson, Barbara, ed., "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Dartmouth and Seattle: The Hood Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2008, p. 102, plate 8, illus.

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Beembe

2000–2000

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