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Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo, OBE (British, born Kenya, 1950)
Details
Title
Untitled
Artist/Maker
Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo, OBE (British, born Kenya, 1950)
Date
1984
Medium
Burnished and carbonized terra-cotta
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Samuel J. and Gabrielle W. Lurie
Accession #
2018.97
Magdalene Odundo is drawn to art of the Mangbetu peoples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She particularly loves the flared coiffure formerly worn exclusively by members of the Mangbetu ruling class. This elaborate, reed-reinforced hairstyle, called tumburu, has been a subject of fascination from the era of the Harlem Renaissance through today.
