Details

Title

Untitled

Artist/Maker

Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo, OBE (British, born Kenya, 1950)

Date

undated

Medium

Burnished and carbonized terra-cotta

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Samuel J. and Gabrielle W. Lurie

Accession #

2018.97

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Skyway, Gallery 410

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.

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