Charm "baana maphasa" ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3037548

Description

wood, brown patina, two separate carved anthropomorphic half figures with cavities in their cylindrical bodies, drilled holes at the neck with cord and two seed capsules, base;
such pendants are worn in pair by small children as part of a treatment for fainting or epilepsy. The cavities contained protective medicine.

The object Charm “baana maphasa” with the object ID 3037548 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 512 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, 0. 235, ill. 221