Mangbetu Ebony Busts: Traditional Beauty from Central Africa

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A pair of impressive Central African ebony busts, the male and female with traditional hairstyles and facial scarification, from the Uele district on the border of Oubangui in French Equatorial Africa and the Belgian Congo, Mangbetu tribe. Height 38 cm and 36 cm

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Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.

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African artefacts - Congo 124

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