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Title: Old LEGA Bwami Cult wood Mask Congo DRC African Tribal Art Africain mc 1858

Description: CONGO DRC
Powerful idimu LEGA Mask
Visibly a very old one
This type of mask was used in the cult of the Bwami, a level society whose rites were reserved for the initiates
This association organized the social structure and ensured the stability of the Lega community.
The Lega are a Bantu forest people of Central Africa,established mainly in the east of the Congo Drc, east of the Lwalaba River (the Congo River), up to the altitude in the Mitumba Mountains,in the provinces of South Kivu and Maniema.

Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICAL GROUP: Lega .
ORIGINE: Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC (ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaïre).
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 9 3/4 Inches high (25 cm)
CONDITION: Medium
Please have a look on the pictures
Base is NOT included

BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Lega. Ethique et Beaute au coeur de l'Afrique. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 2002. KBC.

- Joyaux Lega de la collection Benoit Rousseau. Viviane Baeke, MRAC et Benoit Rousseau. 2013. BRUNEAF.

- A la recherche du sens du Bwami, au fil d'une collection pas comme les autres. Viviane Baeke. Sans date. Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale.

- La sculpture des Lega. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 1994. Galerie Helene et Philippe Leloup- Paris-New-York.

- The arts of Zaire, Vol II Eastern Zaire. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 1986 University of California press.

- L'art des Lega d'Afrique centrale, Elizabeth L. Cameron. 2013. Musee du quai Branly.

- Lega Culture. Art, Initiation and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 1973. University of California Press.

- Les Lega et leur art. Sur les traces d’un reveur egare au Congoland. Emile-Alexandre Georges. 2005. Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale.

- L'Art Lega - Grandeur et Humilite. Dans la collection Vallois, Valentine Plisnier et Michel Boulanger, 2016

- Sculptures do not speak. The Balega made them speak, Daniel P. Biebuyck Cahiers de litterature orale 67-68: 69-81, 2010

- Les Warega et les Wabembe. Une extraordinaire culture sociale et une etonnante civilisation sans ecriture en Afrique centrale, Alexandre Safiannikoff, 2022, Paul Safiannikoff

- Bela Hein, grand initie des ivoires Lega, Bernard de Grunne, 2001

- Tresors d'Afrique, Musee de Tervuren, ouvrage collectif, MRAC, 1995

(Notices de Daniel P. Biebuyck)

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Old LEGA Bwami Cult wood Mask Congo DRC African Tribal Art Africain mc 1858

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