Double charm "baana maphasa" ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3042067

Description

wood, brown patina, two identically formed figures, side by side, tied up by rattan, their necks pierced, partly encrusted with blackish mass, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base;
they were worn by small children as part of a treatment for fainting or epilepsy and a second pair is occasionally worn by the child’s mother.

The object Double charm “baana maphasa” with the object ID 3042067 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 457.

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Comparing literature

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 117, ill. 108