23rd Aug, 2022 9:30

Ethnographic Art

 
  Lot 156
 

Two Songye community male power figures, Mankisi, Democratic Republic of Congo, each head with horn charge and rows of metal blades, the faces with applied embossed copper strips and studs, the hands placed either side of a swollen abdomen, power attributes comprising strings of coloured glass beads, bound bishimba, a miniature figure, animal skin, seed pods and woven natural fibres, 106cm & 107cm

The Andrzej Von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection, London, UK.

Sold for £220


 

Two Songye community male power figures, Mankisi, Democratic Republic of Congo, each head with horn charge and rows of metal blades, the faces with applied embossed copper strips and studs, the hands placed either side of a swollen abdomen, power attributes comprising strings of coloured glass beads, bound bishimba, a miniature figure, animal skin, seed pods and woven natural fibres, 106cm & 107cm

Provenance

The Andrzej Von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection, London, UK.

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