Zemanek-Münster

Mask "kaseba" of the "n-khanda" initiation

D. R. Congo, Suku
not available anymore
Provenance
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, Germany
Size
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

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