Power half figure "malembelele"

---

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

---