Charm "baana maphasa" ·  R. D. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3037548

Description

wood, brown patina, two separate carved anthropomorphic half figures with cavities in their cylindrical bodies, drilled holes at the neck with cord and two seed capsules, base;
such pendants are worn in pair by small children as part of a treatment for fainting or epilepsy. The cavities contained protective medicine.

Littérature comparée

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, 0. 235, ill. 221