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Niombo

Scope note

Use for large anthropomorphic funerary figures, made by wrapping red cloth over the dried corpse of a chief or other person of high status, during funerary rites of the Bwendi and Kamba peoples of Africa.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000262878

Broader Terms used

funerary sculpture

Created

13yrs ago

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