Terrakotta-skulptur Mangbetu - DR Congo (Ingen mindstepris)

Der er ingen skade.
Denne statuette illustrerer Mangbetu-kunsten fremragende og er viet til ophøjelsen af skønhed. Enkelte kunstnere—in the village of Niangara and at the court of King Okondo—initiated the tradition of anthropomorphic ceramics, which became one of the most sensitive expressions of Mangbetu art.

In Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda...and as in many other African countries, women are the potters. Men are responsible for extracting and transporting the clay. Everything else falls to the women.