Figurally carved tusk ·  D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Loango Coast · ID: 3036100

Description

ivory, figurally decorated with scenes of eyeryday life, arranged in horizontal rows running around, min. dam., missing part at the lower rim, fine cracks, base;
such tusks feature commonplace scenes of contemporary life, especially commercial transactions between whites and blacks. The scenes are depicted in separate vignettes and are not meant to be read as a continous story line. The spiral band acts as ground line for the procession of figures seen in profile. The spiral pattern has a long tradition in the Congo region and could allude to the path that the people believe the dead follow from earth to the ancestral realm and back again to be reborn.

L’objet Figurally carved tusk avec l’ID d’objet 3036100 a fait partie de l’enchère 76th tribal art auction en 22 mars 2014 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 542.

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Littérature comparée

Ross, Doran H. (ed.), Elephant, Los Angeles 1992, p. 36