Small standing figure ·  D. R. Congo, Lega · ID: 3037842

Description

ivory, shiny honey brown patina, closed contour with short legs and indicated arms, a nearly neckless head without facial features, min. dam., missing parts (back), cracks through age;
each member of “musagi wa kindi”, a lower sublevel of the highest “bwami” rank, owns a bone or ivory human figure from the “kalimbangoma” category as a sign of his status. This figure is placed in the care of its owners high-level “bwami” wife. She is responsible for bringing it to initiations and sometimes preparing it with oil.

The object Small standing figure with the object ID 3037842 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 442.

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