Double charm "baana maphasa" · D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3042067
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Provenance
Jo de Buck, Brussels, BelgiumSize
H: 9 cm
H: 3.5 inch
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.
Comparing literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 117, ill. 108