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Staff Finial: Kneeling Female Figure
Not on view
This solitary kneeling woman with eyes closed and a distinctive elongated head executed with fluid delicacy was once the finial of the staff of office owned by the Woyo chief Pedro Diamante. The Belgian colonial official Edmond Dartevelle acquired this refined miniature in the village of Makaya Vista between 1933 and 1936 and subsequently gave it to the Royal Museum of Central Africa. Its author appears to have been responsible for four other closely related finials.
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