Standing female figure ·  D. R. Congo, Hungana · ID: 3038243

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, with regard to the iconographical realisation an exceptional art work, several circular drillings (crypto fetish), min. dam., cracks, small missing parts, traces of abrasion, base;
with five thousand people the Hungana form one of the smallest ethnic group at the river of Kwango. Together with the Mbala they came from Angola under the leadership of Makoko.
figures like the present were probably kept in ancestral shrines together with the skulls.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3038243 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 410.

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Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 43, ill. 16 Utotombo - L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Bruxelles 1988, p. 210, ill. 171