Male ancestor figure "singiti"

D. R. Congo, Hemba, Nkuvu Style

sold EUR 3,500

Provenance

René Rickli, Olten, Switzerland

Size

H: 59 cm

H: 23.2 inch

Description

wood, fabric (cotton), magical charge (head), sacrificial traces, fragmentary (legs missing), base

Neyt, Francois, La Grande Statuaire Hemba du Zaire, Louvain-la-Neuve 1977, p. 238

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrika, Maske und Skulptur, Olten 1989, ill. 93

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