Divining instrument "kashekesheke" · R. D. Congo, Luba · ID: 3038141
Vendu
700 €
Provenance
Edouard d’Orjo de Marchovelette, Brussels, Belgium (1901-1985), territorial administrator, who served in the Belgian Congo from 1925 to 1952. He mainly collected Luba and Lega objects.Didier Claes, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, shiny middle brown patina, pierced rectangular corpus, crowned by a stylized human head, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion, base
Littérature comparée
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 183