Divining instrument "kashekesheke" · D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3038141
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Edouard d’Orjo de Marchovelette, Brussels, Belgium (1901-1985), territorial administrator, who served in the Belgian Congo from 1925 to 1952. He mainly collected Luba and Lega objects.Didier Claes, Brussels, Belgium
Size
H: 13 cm
H: 5.1 inch
Description
wood, shiny middle brown patina, pierced rectangular corpus, crowned by a stylized human head, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion, base
The object Divining instrument “kashekesheke” with the object ID 3038141 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 445 achieved a sales price of EUR 700.
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Comparing literature
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 183