Hunting charm "khonzo-mbuumba" ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3037964

Description

wood, dark brown patina, traces of black paint, elongated cylindrical corpus, crowned by anthropomorphic head with Yaka characteristic facial features and strong horns, slightly dam. (nose), rep. (breakage at the left horn), base;
smaller examples, like the present, were often inserted into the top of a sack bearing ingredients. Larger images often supported collars made of the jaw bones of trapped animals.

The object Hunting charm “khonzo-mbuumba” with the object ID 3037964 was part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction on March 21, 2015. The object with the lot number 502 achieved a sales price of EUR 500 with an asking price of EUR 300.

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Comparing literature

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 93