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Pair of figures ·  Tanzania, Ngoni · ID: 3040496

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Provenance
Alfred Zenichowski, Berlin, Germany
Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, Germany

Description

wood, reddish brown and black patina, strings with miniature glass beads, leather belt, identical formed bodies, coiffures from clay-like mass with remains of human hair, eyes with inlay, ears with drilled holes for insertion of magical loading, the female carrying a child on the back, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, rep. (both wrists of the male/left foot tip of the female figure), base;
depicting a couple of mythical or real ancestors. They were kept in the house of the clan leader or in small shrines, where they received sacrifices to keep them well-disposed.
The Ngoni cluster are mixed descendants of Zulu bands that fled from Natal around 1820 to escape from the rule of King Shaka.


Publications

Albert-König-Museum (ed.), Afrikanische Kunst, Sammlung Robert Lewitzki, Unterlüß, 2001, p. 7, ill. 1

Exposition

Afrikanische Kunst, Sammlung Robert Lewitzki, Albert-König-Museum, Unterlüß 11. März -16. April 2001


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