EO.0.0.26509
Mpwuu statue (Yansi) - EO.0.0.26509
4th quarter of the 19th century. RD Congo. Registered in 1922. Collected by Father J. van Wing ca. 1920.
Mpwuu, an important protective fetish, was associated with the chiefs of villages or lineages. Sometimes, a mpwuu was accompanied by one or two other sculptures: a woman or child and a servant (muley). A child and a muley belong with this specimen, both of which are kept in the RMCA reserves.