Ritual implement ·  D. R. Congo, Chokwe/Lulua · ID: 3036257

Description

plant fibre ring, tightly wrapped with plaited plant fibre strings saturated with mass, nine bar-shaped wooden figures originally placed around the ring, five of them preserved, each with brown patina, traces of white and red pigment as well as a sticky sacrificial patina, metal base

Littérature comparée

Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 124, ill. 86