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Standing male figure ·  R. D. Congo, Basikasingo · ID: 3032532

Vendu 5 000 €
Provenance
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, Germany

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, encrusted in some areas, both arms close to the body, ornamental bladebones, accentuated spine, slightly dam., cracks, paint rubbed off, on plate;
the Basikasingo have rites for ancestors, who have the power to cause disease and misfortune. If a mischief happened, people tried to experience the wishes of the ancestors by interpreting dreams and by sooth saying. They were kept in small shrines under the authority and guardianship of a petty chief, village headman or dominant lineage elder. Sometimes such figures were individually identified ancestors, called “bashumbu”.


Littérature comparée

Biebuyck, Daniel P., Statuary from the pre-Bembe hunters, Tervuren 1981, p.115 Kerchache, Jacques, Paudrat, Jean-Louis u.a., Die Kunst des Schwarzen Afrika, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1988, p. 584 f.


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