Power half figure "malembelele" · D. R. Congo, Luntu/Bakwa Luntu · ID: 3041484
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Provenance
Kevin Conru, London, Great BritainSize
H: 14 cm
H: 5.5 inch
Description
wood, surface strongly encrusted with a mixture from sacrificial matters and pigments, drilled holes for attachment of magical mass, nose rubbed off, crack backside, base;
presumably a fetish called “malembelele” which should punish wrongdoers.
Comparing literature
Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 93, ill. 9