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.).
The object Mask “kaseba” of the “n-khanda” initiation with the object ID 3045133 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 359.
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Comparing literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 149