Description : Tribal Art: Small female figure Ngbandi, D. R. Kongo wood, shiny, middle brown patina, fork-shaped legs supporting an armless torso, the face bisected by a notched nose ridge, min. dam., missing part (foot tip), cracks, the Ngbandi are an ethnical group of about 120000 people, living in the northwest of Zaire, east and south of the Oubangi river. This figure presumably depicting the sister/wife of yangba, equivalent of seto and nabo among the Ngbaka. H: 24,5 cm, (5241/001) H: 9.6 inch Provenance: Old Colonial Collection, Belgium Literature: Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk (ed.), Ubangi - Art and Cultures from the African Heartland, Africa Museum, Berg en Dal, 2008, p. 115, ill. 3.4
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About the lot N° 441 Title : Small Female Figure Ngbandi, Period : 2008.0 Condition report : min. dam., missing part (foot tip), cracks