Mask "mweelu" · D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3035682
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
Description
wood, fabric, white, black, red and indigoblue pigment, plug-shaped wooden handle, carved with a bird face (owl?), rattan bonnet coated with plant fibre and fabric, forming a superstrucure with two antenna-like projections, min. dam., small missing parts (fabric), slight traces of abrasion
The object Mask “mweelu” with the object ID 3035682 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 140.
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Comparing literature
Mestach, Willy, L'intelligence des formes, Brüssel 2007, p. 86 f. Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 195, ill. 9