Double amulette "baana maphasa" ·  R. D. Congo, Yaka · ID: 3042067

Description

wood, brown patina, two identically formed figures, side by side, tied up by rattan, their necks pierced, partly encrusted with blackish mass, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base;
they were worn by small children as part of a treatment for fainting or epilepsy and a second pair is occasionally worn by the child’s mother.

Littérature comparée

Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 117, ill. 108