Lot: 359

91e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Masque "kaseba" de l'initiation "n-khanda"

R. D. Congo, Suku

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, Germany
H: 71 cm 400 EUR
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wood, pigments,
Female version of the "kakuungu" mask type. The mask was originally supplemented with a lush grass fiber coiffure in which various magical appendages were interwoven (feathers, small packages with magical charge, animal horns, etc.).


Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 149