Half figure with magical loading

D. R. Congo, Kasongo

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Provenance

Dutch Private Collection, 1980s
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands

Size

H: 29 cm

H: 11.4 inch

Description

wood, pigments, fabric, base

Figures with mass-filled recesses in their heads were mostly the property of healers.

A half-figure of the same artist shown at African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre, number 0017758.

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 52

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