Headrest Base: Seated Female Figure
Object type: Headrest base
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Culture: Luba peoples
Artist: Master of the Cascade Coiffure
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Zaire
Date: 19th–20th century
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: H. 5 1/4 x Diam. 4 1/8 in. (13.3 x 10.5 cm)

Classification: Wood-Furniture
Geography:     Democratic Republic of the Congo Shankadi region 
Credit line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1966
Accession year: 1978
Tags: Women