sep 15, 1770 - 171 Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul

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1760-1780 CE
Wood
Kuba peoples (Democratic republic of the Congo)
The ndop statues might be the the most revered of all Kuba art forms. The ndop (literally meaning “statue”) are a genre of figurative wood sculpture that portrays important Kuba leaders throughout the eighteenth to twentieth centuries

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