Lot: 228

Objet de culte rituel de la société "mani"

R. D. Congo, Azandé

Provenance Taille Adjugé
Field collected by Boris Adé, Geneve, Switzerland (ca. 1953-1957)
Belgian Private Collection, Brussels

Adé spent years as a doctor to Pygmies in the Ituri country. He was field collector in the Uele region in north Congo between 1946-1949 & 1953-1957.
H: 40,5 cm Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

wood, inscribed in white: "ASANDE...Dr. B. Adé "glopita" Mani...Lower Uele. Zaire", crack, pedestal


Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk (ed.), "Ubangi", Brussels, 2007, p. 72, ill. 1.85

ADHRC: 0172839