Rare & Powerful NYANGA Mask near Lega Congo DRC African
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VERY RARE AND POWERFUL
NYANGA* PEOPLE MASK
Old mask, whose the simplicity of form is only matched by its beauty and power
A similar mask is shown in "100 peoples of Zaire" (see Bibl.)
According to Daniel P. Biebuyck, who lived among them for four years, the Nyanga, neighbors of the Lega, the Shi, the Hunde and the Kumu, are a small tribe whose population he estimated at 27,000 in 1949.
The Nyanga people live in North Kivu, but they would be originated historically from Mesopotamia, having passed by Lake Chad, then through Uganda in the region of Fort Portal, to finally settle in the forest of Walikale, north of Goma, in Congo DRC (zoom on the Nyanga people, radio Okapi 2018)
* beware of the confusion between the "Nyanga people" and the well known "nyanga" masks of the Bobo people in Burkina Faso
CHARACTERISTICS :
TYPE OF OBJECT : Mask
ETHNICAL GROUP : Nyanga
ORIGINE : Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC (ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaire)
MATERIAL : Wood
DIMENSIONS : About 11 Inches high
15 1/4 with the base
CONDITION : Medium
Please have a look on the pictures
PROVENANCE : Private collection
THE STAND DISPLAY IS INCLUDED
BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- 100 PEOPLES OF ZAIRE AND THEIR SCULPTURE. THE HANDBOOK FOR COLLECTORS, SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS,
MARC LEO FELIX, BRUXELLES : ZAIRE BASIN ART HISTORY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1987 PAGE 137
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Rare & Powerful NYANGA Mask near Lega Congo DRC African
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