Pendant "ikoko"

D. R. Congo, Pende

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany American Private Collection, New Jersey	H: 2.2 inch	sold

ivory, with long beard ("mwevu"), supposed to be a symbol for authority and wisdom of the ancestors, ornaments in pokerwork, min. dam., base

Kerchache, Jacques & Jean-Louis Paudrat u.a., Die Kunst des Schwarzen Afrika, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1988, ill. 219 ff.