Standing male power figure "nkisi" ·  D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3035020

Description

wood, middle brown patina, blackened in parts, kaolin, strings of glass beads, armless body, janus head with different looking faces, one in form of a female “kifwebe” mask “kilume” with polychrome paint, the other one monochrome with the eyes inset with metal tags, crowned by a small animal horn, drilled holes at the sides, min. dam., breakage (horn), fine cracks

The object Standing male power figure “nkisi” with the object ID 3035020 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 417 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,000.

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Comparing literature

Hersak, Dunja, Songye, Masks and Figure Sculpture, London 1986, p. 163, ill. 125