Calabash stopper ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3033555

Description

wood, dark brown patina, crowned by a human head with stylized facial features and pointed headgear, min. dam., slight traces of usage, on base;
various people of Zaire, including the Pende, the Suku, and the Yaka, carry palm wine gourds fitted with wood stoppers carved in the form of human heads or complete figures and show aspects of each group’s style.

The object Calabash stopper with the object ID 3033555 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 455 achieved a sales price of EUR 60.

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Comparing literature

Wardwell, Allen, African sculpture from the University Museum of Pensylvania, Pensylvania 1986, p. 106, ill. 44