Standing figure "biteki" ·  D. R. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3035544

Description

wood, brown patina, traces of kaolin and of red pigment, headdress and hands with decorating nails, metal ring around the neck, bicoloured bands of fabric around the hips, cavity in the belly with fabric, mirror glass and mass encrustations, drilled pupils, slightly dam., cracks (on the left side of the body, spread with mass and “khula”), socle

The object Standing figure “biteki” with the object ID 3035544 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 419.

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