Cleveland Museum of Art
Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble (mbulu ngulu)
probably 1800s
The diamond-shaped "body" of this sculpture was originally pushed into a container of ancestral relics (bones) up to its "shoulders." Metal covers only areas of the wood that were left visible.
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