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Zemanek-Münster

Figure féminine debout, env. 1880 ·  République démocratique du Congo, Bembé, centre-sud du Congo-Brazzaville, bassin supérieur de la Bouenza · ID: 3052826

Prix d'appel
2 000 €
Prix d'Estimation
4 000 €
Provenance
Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Josef Herman, Suffolk, Great Britain
Jean Cambier, Brussels, Belgium
Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, Paris, France
Frederick Harry Gordon Hanley, Bournemouth, England
Taille
H: 13,5 cm
H: 5.3 inch

Description

wood, porcelain in eyes, pigments,

These small anthropomorphic miniature figures depict ancestors and are dedicated to them.

Small amounts of power substances (pieces of the individual’s corpse, medicines, magic substances “bilongo”) are placed in a cavity near the anus, in the back or the head. In this way, the figure receives the spirit of the ancestor and is thus transformed into a “nkiteki” (pl. “biteki”) ancestor figure.


Expertise

Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, London, 27 March 2003


Publications

Fagg, William, Miniature Wood Carvings of Africa, New York 1970, p. 58, ill. 49

AHDRC: 0012457


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