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Beschreibung : A «Salampassu» mask, wood, copper and fibers, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20th C., faults and defects, purchased in Sandoa region (Katanga). Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, item number 15, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified in it as «Máscara - Asalampasu»: One of the characteristic features of these masks is the protruding forehead that overshadows the poorly differentiated features of the face. [...] Purchased in the Sandoa region (Katanga) by Luís de Carvalho, a merchant in Luau [former Teixeira de Sousa] and former employee of the C. F. B. railway and offered by him in 1966. Cf. Bibliography referred to by the collector: (possibly) FAGG, William Buller - Sculptures africaines: les univers artistiques des tribus d'Afrique noire. Paris, Fernand Hazan, p. 65, tribe 100. Another «Salampassú» mask is represented in FELIX, Marc Leo. - 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook”. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 153, nº 15., Dim. - (total) 58 cm

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