According to the label, portraits in African culture were meant to reflect a person’s status, not his/her appearance. What do we use today to show our status? Is there a way that portraits today do the same thing?

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According to the label, portraits in African culture were meant to reflect a person’s status, not his/her appearance. What do we use today to show our status? Is there a way that portraits today do the same thing?

Funerary Portrait (mma)

Africa & Pacific Islands: Owsley Ethnographic Gallery»

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