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Title: Rare LEGA KWAME Kayamba Mask Bwami Cult Congo Drc African Tribal Art 1131

Description: CONGO DRC
RARE KAYAMBA MASK
KWAME LEGA
Beautiful mask, very expressive
The Kayamba Mask is easily recognizable by the two horns on the top. It is a relatively rare mask, used by preceptors during the initiation rites of young boys for the passage to adulthood
The Kwame
The Kwame (Bakwame) are considered by some as a sub-tribe of the Lega, by others as a neighboring tribe sharing with them cultual and stylistic characteristics. This people is divided into 12 independent groups, only 8 of them practicing the cult of the Bwami.
Biebuyck writes that the Bakwame are the remarkable synthesis of the influences of the Lega, Kumu, Songola, Nyanga and Konjo (Biebuyck, The Arts of Zaire, 1986, page 229)
They live in the province of Maniema, in the Territory of Punia and in the province of South Kivu, in the territory of Shabunda.

Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICAL GROUP: Lega- Kwame
ORIGINE: Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC (ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaïre).
MATERIAL: Wood, vegetal fibers
DIMENSIONS: About 11 1/2 Inches high (29 cm)
17 3/4 with the beard (45 cm)
CONDITION: Medium
Please have a look on the pictures.
The base is NOT included

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BIBLIOGRAPHIE / 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 VALLIER (2016, VALENTINE PLISNIER ET MICHEL BOULANGER)
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Rare LEGA KWAME Kayamba Mask Bwami Cult Congo Drc African Tribal Art 1131

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