Small standing figure ·  D. R. Congo, Sundi · ID: 3036702

Description

wood, slightly shiny brown patina, remains of kaolin, torso with accentuated bladebones and thin extremities, raised chin, high towering headgear, dam., missing parts (lower legs, feet), slight traces of abrasion, 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.

The object Small standing figure with the object ID 3036702 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 598.

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