13.2012.1 Seated male figure depicting a European

This figure demonstrates the sculptor's keen sense of observation and attention to anatomy and clothing. The Africans called Europeans mindele, or "those in cloth," because they wore unnecessary cloths. The sculptor depicted his subject with a haughty facial expression and hair hanging in straight locks beneath his hat. He wears a high-collared jacket with side pockets and buttons and buttonholes over a shirt with a detailed front. He grasps the edges of his jacket, perhaps as an expression of arrogant satisfaction or because his belly prevents him from closing it. He also wears trousers with a belt. This miniature figure was probably made for a European patron and displayed on an office desk or on a mantle in a Victorian parlor. 

Roslyn A. Walker, Label text, Arts of Africa, 2015.

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