23rd Aug, 2022 9:30

Ethnographic Art

 
  Lot 62
 

Two Songye community power figures, Mankisi, with horn charge and embedded metal blades to the head, each face with applied embossed copper strips, the taller figure with applied copper studs the hands either side of a swollen abdomen, assorted power attributes comprising bound bishimba, a string of coloured glass beads, animal hide, horns and sea shells, 107cm & 114cm

The Andrzej Von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection, London, UK.

Sold for £160


 

Two Songye community power figures, Mankisi, with horn charge and embedded metal blades to the head, each face with applied embossed copper strips, the taller figure with applied copper studs the hands either side of a swollen abdomen, assorted power attributes comprising bound bishimba, a string of coloured glass beads, animal hide, horns and sea shells, 107cm & 114cm

Provenance

The Andrzej Von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection, London, UK.

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