Standing female figure · D. R. Congo, Kanyok · ID: 3035332
Jean-Paul Agogué, Paris, France
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, eyes with silver metal inlay, navel and female sexual characteristics especially accentuated, the trunk abundantly adorned with raised scarification marks, coiffure with tripartite crest and wing-like side lobes, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage, socle;
the Kanyok have their homeland in the central south of the Kongo, between the Lunda in the southwest and the Luba in the northeast. As with other peoples in the neighbourhood, the artworks of the Kanyok have strongly been influenced by the Luba and -occasionally- also by the Songe.
The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3035332 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 340.
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