Description

Title: Extremly Rare & Powerful SHI plank wood Mask Congo Lega African Tribal Art 1184

Description: CONGO DRC
Rare SHI Plank Mask
According to Marc Leo Felix in "Maniema", this type of sculpture would represent the primordial ancestor.
According to the same author, it was used by the descendants of the lega, or the Shi would have borrowed this tradition (in "100 peoples of Zaire")
This type of "mask" was also used by Kumu
Additional feature, this one has only one head while most of the listed parts have two.
David Hamill presented in its gallery a similar one from the Robert Dupierre collection, Paris
The Shi are a Bantu people established mainly in the extreme east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are neighbors of Lega
CHARACTERISTICS :

TYPE OF OBJECT : Mask.
ETHNICAL GROUP : Shi - Bashi
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : Democratic Republic Congo
(ex Zaire, ex Belgian Congo).
MATERIAL : Wood
DIMENSIONS : About 15 inches high
CONDITION : Medium - bad
Please have a look on pictures
BASE IS NOT INCLUDED
BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- Maniema, Marc Leo Felix, Fred Jahn München, 1989
- The Intelligence of forms", An Artist collects African Art (Willy Mestach) Evan M. Maurer, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1991
- 100 peoples of Zaire and their sculpture. The handbook for collectors, scholars and students, Mar Leo Felix, Bruxelles : Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987
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PIECES SIMILAIRES - SIMILAR ITEMS
DEUX TETES - TWO HEADS
- LOT 456, ZEMANEK-MUNSTER, WURZBURG - 11 NOVEMBRE 2017
- LOT 168, SOTHEBY'S, NEW YORK - 13 MAY 2019
- LOT 588, NEUMEISTER, MUNICH - 10 NOVEMBRE 2011
- "THE INTELLIGENCE OF FORMS", AN ARTIST COLLECTS AFRICAN ART (WILLY MESTACH) EVAN M. MAURER,
THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 1991 PAGE 84 (KOMO - KUMU)
- MANIEMA, MARC LEO FELIX, FRED JAHN MUNCHEN, 1989 PAGE 265
- 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 PAGES 156-157
UNE TETE - ONE HEAD
- HAMILL GALLERY OF AFRICAN ART
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Extremly Rare & Powerful SHI plank wood Mask Congo Lega African Tribal Art 1184

Name: Extremly Rare & Powerful SHI plank wood Mask Congo Lega African Tribal Art 1184
SKU: 226741750
Price: 480 USD
Availability: InStock