Small power figure ·  R. D. Congo, Sundi · ID: 3035876

Description

wood, dark brown patina, encrustations with mass/clay, spherical package with magical loading at the belly, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
the Sundi live in the northern estuary of the Zaire (Kongo). Like their neighbours they used to carve a great variety of fetish figures in different sizes and with different paraphernalias attached.

Littérature comparée

Bastin, Marie-Louise, Introduction aux arts d' Afrique noire, Arnouville 1984, p. 278, ill. 291