Mask "kaseba" of the "n-khanda" initiation · D. R. Congo, Suku · ID: 3045133
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Provenance
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, GermanySize
H: 71 cm
H: 28.0 inch
Description
wood, pigments,
Female version of the “kakuungu” mask type. The mask was originally supplemented with a lush grass fiber coiffure in which various magical appendages were interwoven (feathers, small packages with magical charge, animal horns, etc.).
Comparing literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 149