Women dance dress "ntshak" · D. R. Congo, Bushoong · ID: 3033183
sold
EUR 450
Size
M: 500 cm x 82 cm
M: 196.9 inch x 32.3 inch
Description
fibres of the raffia palm, consisting of eight pieces of cloth and various smaller ones, the fond dyed in brown, braided with applications of abstract form in light beige, in good state of preservation, slightly dam., small holes (may as well come from the making of the cloth, which is watered and hammered with wooden pestels for several times in order to make it smooth).
The object Women dance dress “ntshak” with the object ID 3033183 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 382 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.
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Comparing literature
Meurant, Georges, Traumzeichen, München 1989, p. 94