Warrior Ancestor Figure at The Kimbell Art Museum, America
Warrior Ancestor Figure at The Kimbell Art Museum, America
3D
Published 2015-10-01T14:11:11+00:00
The dignified figure of a Hemba warrior, with his upright posture and lofty, outward gaze, would have served as the focus for the veneration of its ancestors among one of the Hemba peoples of the central and eastern Congo (Location: Area of Lualaba, Luika, and Lukiga rivers). Each clan possessed such an ancestral effigy that was revered as the image of a founder, both actual and ideal. As a receptacle for the ancestor's spirit, the figure is both conceptually and stylistically universalized; it is not converned with the specific or momentary. Such figures were preserved in funerary houses or chiefs' houses and expressed the continuing relationship between the living and the dead. Reflecting the cult of the warrior assimilated from the Luma people. the Kimbell ancestor figure holds a large parade knife in his right hand a lance in his left. As extensions of his arms, his weapons symbolize his courage and masculine physical prowess. These emblems of power, along with the carefully twimmed beard and the characteristic, cruciform headdress, probably allude to the office of war chief. Retaining overall the columnar stability of the living tree from which it was carved, the sculptor has structured the image from bold spherical and cylindrical forms, enlivened by the interplay of forceful diagonals and stabilizing horizontals.
(source; Kimbell Art Museum)
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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)
Layer Thickness 150 microns. InFill 10%. Carefully remove the supports.
| Date published | 01/10/2015 |
| Time to do | 220 - 240 minutes |
| Material Quantity | 22 grams |
| Dimensions | 38mm x 30mm x 130mm |
| Technology | FDM |
| Title | Warrior Ancestor Figure |
| Dimension | 84.4 x 26 x 23.2 cm |
| Accession | AP 1979.03 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium | Wood |
| Credit | Frank D. Lambrecht, Congo and Brussels. (Armando Scamperle, Rome and Paris). (Jacques Kerchache [born 1942], Paris) to the mid-1970s); purchased by (Ben Heller, Inc., New York) possibly from (Jacques Kerchache) by 1975; purchased by Kimbell Art Foundation |
| Place | Kimbell Art Museum |
