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Male ancestor figure "singiti", D. R. Congo, Hemba, Nkuvu Style, Size: H: 59 cm (H: 23.2 inch), ID: 3045667
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Lot 107
92nd Tribal Art Auction

Male ancestor figure "singiti" ·  D. R. Congo, Hemba, Nkuvu Style · ID: 3045667

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

Comparing literature

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

Publications

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

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