Big power figure "biteki na matompa" ·  R. D. Congo, Teke · ID: 3033824

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, red paint, hatched linear scarification marks on the cheeks, the consecrated substances “bilongo” are fixed to the abdomen, forehead and back of the head with the aid of a resinous material, traces of mass and sacrificial offerings (feathers) at the mouth, dam., cracks, missing parts through insect caused damage and weathering (both feet), water spots, on metal plate;
such protective and magical figures are used as a prophylaxis against sleeping sickness and other illnesses. In some examples the medicine package “bilongo” is missing. Such packages are often scraped out by the “nganga”, little by little, and sold as healing or protective dust. The “biteki” are figures supposed to act magically, opposed to the “buti”, the ancestor figures.

L’objet Big power figure “biteki na matompa” avec l’ID d’objet 3033824 a fait partie de l’enchère 71st tribal art auction en 24 novembre 2012 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 447.

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Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, München 2009, p. 575 f.