Figure of a Christian missionary
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Figure, Congo, 19th century, Ivory.
Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
This ivory figure owes its origin to the high art of carving in Loango (now Gabon and Congo). The representation is a Christian missionary, apparently with filed teeth, whose hat, footwear and hairstyle are of European origin.