Masque "moshambwooy" ·  R. D. Congo, Bushoong · ID: 3037475

Description

rattan framework, covered with plant fibre bast, decorated with embroidered cowrie shells and strings of glass beads, the facial plane covered with leather, seperate carved wooden ears and nose, grass fibre cuff at the lower rim, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
“moshambwoooy” is the highest, royal mask in the hierarchy of the Kuba-Bushoong. It depicts “woot”, the ancestor of the clan.

Littérature comparée

Weinhold, Ulrike,The Eternal Face, Berg en Dal 2000, p. 203, ill. 2