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More model informationThe head of this Boyo ancestor figure was displayed on the famous book cover of:
Art of Africa: Treasures from the Congo
from Joseph-Aurélien Cornet, F.S.C. (Phaidon, 1971).
Its 3D model was built using a set of VRT images (Volume Rendering Technique) after post-processing 3,300 CT-scan axial slices (Somatom).
Caption: Male ancestor figure, Boyo people (Luba), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th–20th century. Wood. H. 98 cm.
Provenance: Private collection, Belgium.
Click here to read more about a similar figure from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
MG • January 31, 2016
Jan 31st 2016
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