Zemanek-Münster

Small power figure

D. R. Congo, Sundi
sold EUR 600
Provenance
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 6,5 cm
H: 2.6 inch

Description

wood, dark brown patina, encrustations with mass/clay, spherical package with magical loading at the belly, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
the Sundi live in the northern estuary of the Zaire (Kongo). Like their neighbours they used to carve a great variety of fetish figures in different sizes and with different paraphernalias attached.


Comparing literature

Bastin, Marie-Louise, Introduction aux arts d' Afrique noire, Arnouville 1984, p. 278, ill. 291

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