Standing male figure ·  R. D. Congo, Basikasingo · ID: 3033458

Description

wood, dark brown patina, tribe-typical facial features with beard, min. dam., minor missing parts, cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
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 soothsaying. 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”.

L’objet Standing male figure avec l’ID d’objet 3033458 a fait partie de l’enchère 70th tribal art auction en 8 septembre 2012 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 376.

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Littérature comparée

Biebuyck, Daniel P., Statuary from the pre-Bembe hunters, Tervuren 1981, p. 42, ill. 33