Auction 104
Zemanek-Münster

Standing male magical figure "nkisi"

D. R. Congo, Songye
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.


Exhibition

Gallery Glemminge, Glemminge, Sweden 1976; Magins Hjärta, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden 1997

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