Standing male figure "kalimbangoma" · D. R. Congo, Lega · ID: 3034885
Description
ivory, stained brown patina, heart-shaped facial plane, handle-shaped arms, carved with cap, belt and suspenders, missing part at the right ear;
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 Standing male figure “kalimbangoma” with the object ID 3034885 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 344.
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Comparing literature
Cameron, Elisabeth L., Art of the Lega, Los Angeles 2001, p. 120
Publications
Felix, Marc L. (ed.), White gold, black hands, Vol. 6, Brussels 2013