Standing male magical figure "nkisi" · D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3045014

Name: Standing male magical figure "nkisi"
SKU: 3045014
Price: 6600 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 6,600

Provenance

Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden

Size

H: 75,5 cm / 114 cm

H: 29.7 inch / 44.9 inch

Description

wood, animal horn, grass, reptile skin, shell discs, glass beads,
Because of its big size present figure should have once belonged to a village or a community. These sculptures are created above all to promote fecundity and fertility or to insure tranquility in the village.

Rising above the statue, the horn is one of the most important elements of the whole. It symbolizes power, fertility and fecundity.

The object Standing male magical figure “nkisi” with the object ID 3045014 was last part of the auction 90.I Tribal Art and 90.II Contemporary Native American Art at November 17, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 320 achieved a sales price of EUR 6,600.

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