Standing female figure "mvunzi" · R. D. Congo, Holo · ID: 3035995
Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, dark brown patina, characteristic: overlong arms with the hands up to the chin, bean-shaped eyes and the projecting mouth, arms with drilled holes, openings in the ears (on one side filled), slightly dam. (ears), crack (backside), base;
presumably a magical figure “mvunzi”, who protects humans against certain evil spirits. The main fortuneteller usually possesses such “mvunzi”, who employs them in cases of sickness, for theft or for the hunt. In many cases, for example with theft, a “mvunzi” possesses not only a protective function, but also an offensive character by acting against the evil spirit and imposing on it an even greater evil.
L’objet Standing female figure “mvunzi” avec l’ID d’objet 3035995 a fait partie de l’enchère 75th tribal art auction en 30 novembre 2013 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 402.
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Littérature comparée
Neyt, Francois, Die Kunst der Holo, München 1982, p. 17 ff