Demi-figure fétiche "malembelele" ·  D. R. Congo, Luntu/Bakwa Luntu · ID: 3041484

Description

wood, surface strongly encrusted with a mixture from sacrificial matters and pigments, drilled holes for attachment of magical mass, nose rubbed off, crack backside, base;
presumably a fetish called “malembelele” which should punish wrongdoers.

Littérature comparée

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 93, ill. 9