Mask "kifwebe" ·  R. D. Congo, Songye · ID: 3035382

Description

wood, lusterless patina, black paint, darkened kaolin, animal hair, flat forehead ridge, enlivened by changing colours blackish brown and white, by plain and fine grooved areas, nose ridge with four drilled holes, pierced around the rim, min. dam., water spots, slight traces of abrasion, socle

Littérature comparée

Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Das Zweite Gesicht, Genf, München, New York 1997, ill. 88