Mask "mukinka" · D. R. Congo, Salampasu · ID: 3052059
Starting price
EUR 1,000
Estimated price
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Germany, 30 October 1974, lot 761Werner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany
Size
H: 25 cm
29 cm (with rattan bowl coiffure)
H: 9.8 inch
11.4 inch (with rattan bowl coiffure)
Description
wood, copper sheet, rattan, pigment, collection label “27”
Traditionally, masks of the Salampasu belong to a broad range of male societies and associated initiation sub-societies.
Most often masks are related to the so-called warriors society “mu(n)gongo”, which served mainly to protect the Salampasu agianst invasions from rival clans or other external forces.
Comparing literature
Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 320 f.
Publications
AHDRC: 0039252