Figure d´ancêtre portant un masque · Angola/Zambie, Tchokwé · ID: 3042450
Serge Diakonoff, Geneva, Switzerland
Loiseau-Schmitz-Digard, St. Germain en Laye, 3 Juin 1997, lot 543
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Description
wooden body, entirely wrapped in net-like plant fibre costume with abundant grass fibre loincloth, crowned by helmet-shaped crest from rattan coated with bark cloth, facial contours and nose formed by plant fibre bulges, completely spread with blackish mass and painted in red and white, slightly dam., breakage (both arms), crack (mass);
among the Chokwe and the related Lovale and Lunda peoples, figures such as the present served a didactic function, and were used to instruct initiates as to the different types of ancestral spirits and dance skills. The Chokwe know over one hundred types of masked characters called “makishi”.
L’objet Figure d´ancêtre portant un masque avec l’ID d’objet 3042450 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 86e vente aux enchères Tribal Art dans 27 mai 2017 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 495 a atteint un prix de vente de 2 000 €.
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