Shield-shaped panel "kalengula" with "kifwebe" mask · D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3053401
Starting price
EUR 800
Estimated price
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Galerie Jahn, Munich, GermanySize
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch
Description
wood, pigments, base
In his treatise on Songye sculpture, Mestach reports on a panel with a carved “kifwebe” mask from the Kabalo region in the Kinshasa museum. It is designated as the guardian of the mask house (“kiobo”) and bears the
designation “kalengula” - “mask that does not dance”.
Comparing literature
Maurer, Evan, The Intelligence of Forms, Minneapolis 1991, p. 63, ill. 32 Mestach, Jean Willy, Songye Studien, München 1985, p. 63