Standing male power figure "nkisi" · D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3035020
sold
EUR 4,000
Provenance
Jean van den Bossche, Belgium (collected between 1954 - 1958)Size
H: 24,5 cm
H: 9.6 inch
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
Comparing literature
Hersak, Dunja, Songye, Masks and Figure Sculpture, London 1986, p. 163, ill. 125