Power figure "khosi" · D. R. Congo, Suku / Holo · ID: 3046517
sold
EUR 350
Provenance
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland (“WS 261”) (coll. in situ, 1969/70)Size
H: 31,5 cm
H: 12.4 inch
Description
wood, pigment, base
According to a personal note, Schwab acquired this figure during his trip to the Congo in 1969/70 in the area of the Kwango River.
He reports that he exchanged it for “clothes, knife, hat etc.” from a “bone breaker” (medicine man) and that the figure should protect against malevolent people and diseases.