Lot: 256

93rd Tribal Art Auction

Half figure with magical loading

D. R. Congo, Kasongo

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Dutch Private Collection, 1980s
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands
H: 11.4 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, pigments, fabric, base

Figures with mass-filled recesses in their heads were mostly the property of healers.

A half-figure of the same artist shown at African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre, number 0017758.


Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 52