Standing male power figure ·  D. R. Congo, Teke · ID: 3034475

Description

wood, middle brown patina, disc-shaped flattened coiffure and beard, the facial plane coated with vertical incisions, cavity in the trunk for insertion of magical loading, slightly dam. (face), crack, acrylic socle;
sometimes the medicine package “bilongo” is missing, as is the case with present figure. Such packages are often scraped out by the “nganga”, little by little, and sold as healing or protective dust.

The object Standing male power figure with the object ID 3034475 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 471 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.

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