Small kneeling figure · D. R. Congo, Sundi · ID: 3040702
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Provenance
Félix Pelt, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSize
H: 12 cm
H: 4.7 inch
Description
wood, slightly shiny middle brown patina, min. dam., crack backside, base;
the Sundi live in the northern estuary of the Zaire (Kongo). Like their neighbours they used to carve a great variety of fetish figures of different size and “loaded” with different paraphernalias (removed with present figure).
The object Small kneeling figure with the object ID 3040702 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 475.
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