Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs

Made:
1860-1910 in Kinshasa
Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs

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Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs
Science Museum Group
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Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Carved wooden statue presumably male but with no genital organs, large oval head with glass eyes, hands on stomach medicine mans creation, Mayombe (?) West Congo, 1860-1910

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655905
Materials:
wood and glass, eyes
type:
statues
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)