Untitled

Sculpture

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Untitled

Entry/Object ID

2001.122

Description

on base Weber #18

Artwork Details

Medium

Wood

Context

The table peoples of the Congo have created these figures based off of historical events that happened in their society. During the mid-nineteenth century, a group of elite Tabwa families challenged the forms of government in their society and took control of the government. They then looked back to the ancestry and created a lineage through sculptural representation of the past leadership. This would then come to the creation of these figures. Each of these figures would represent ancestors of the Tabwa ruler and would be passed down from generation to generation. These sculptures stood as visual representations of dynastic power.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of the May Weber Foundation

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown artist

Notes

Creation Date: no date

Ethnography

Notes

Republic of Congo Republic of Congo, Africa

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Tabwa, Luba region styles, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo styles, Central African (cultural or regional style), African (general, continental cultures), ancestors (family relationships), people (agents), sculpture (visual works), visual works (works), royalty (nobility), nobility, aristocracy (social class), upper class, social classes, social groups, groups of people

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), People (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Agents Facet, Objects Facet

Exhibition

Human Bodies in the Spirit World: African Sculpture from the Weber Collection

Interpretative Labels

Label

Untitled Unknown on base Weber #18