Maternité "phemba" · R. D. Congo, Yombe · ID: 3042421
Emmanuel Ameloot, Brussels, Belgium
Rob Vervoort, Brussels, Belgium
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, light reddish brown patina, dark brown paint, kaolin, eyes inset with mirror glass, filed incisors, rich scarification marks, strikingly fine carved details (plaited bands, lacing of the loincloth), slightly dam. (base), cracks, rep. (a piece of wood seems to be reinserted across left face half and neck), base.
Commemorative figure of a highly regarded woman with a dead child, representing the mythical mother, controller of fecundity. This commemorative statue would have been used to honour the maternal spirit and the prosperity she brings in both funerary and fertility cults.
L’objet Maternité “phemba” avec l’ID d’objet 3042421 a fait partie de l’enchère 87e vente aux enchères Tribal Art en 11 novembre 2017 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 485.
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Littérature comparée
Peter de Smet, A. G. M., Herbs, health, healers, Berg en Dal 1999, p. 17 Lehuard, Raoul, Les phemba du Mayombe, Arnouville 1977, p. 77, ill. 26