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Description : A Kisanji, a wood and iron lamellophone, double lamella frieze, engraved decoration Geometric motifs, partly representing the «Capuita» symbol, lower lamellae with wax compound for tuning, Angolan - Tshokwe, 20th C. (1st half), minor defects, patine wear, back with signature of Soba MUFUPO, purchased in Lumeje on 5-30-1970, from soba Mufupo (Luena). Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Fig. 1 in the notes printed A Escultura Tribal dos Povos Banto updated version, from 1995, of the work with the title A Escultura Negro-Africana Vista à Luz da Filosofia Banta, which the author presented in 1971, for the XXII Floral Games of Huambo Town Hall (former Nova Lisboa) - Angola, p. 10. Original work available at consulted on March 16, 2023 at 11:16 am. Item number 137, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças» , identified there as «Quissanje  Lungando»: Decoration: 4 rectangles juxtaposed with equal decorations along the diagonals. The upper left and lower right with the motif «Capuita» (see nº5), the other two with skewed chess squares forming small lozenges with an excavated centre. On the back face, another «Capuita» symbol with ornamentation different from those on the face, within a rectangle [...]. Below this rectangle is roughly engraved(?) the signature of its owner Mufupo. According to Redinha, the designation of this type of kisanji derives from its low sound. [...] Purchased in Lumeje on 30.5.70, from Soba Mufupo (Luena) [...]. Cf. bibliography referred to by the collector - REDINHA, José - Campanha Etnográfica ao Tchiboco (Alto-Tchicapa) - Anotações e Documentação gráfica, volume 2. In Diamag - Publicações Culturais nº 19. Lisboa: Companhia de Diamantes de Angola - Serviços Culturais Dundo - Lunda - Angola - Museu do Dundo, 1955, p. 20. Finely crafted musical instruments, combs, pipes, axes and stools may include elaborate figurative and/or abstract motifs and belong to whoever can afford to obtain them. - cf. JORDÁN, Manuel - Os Tshokwe e Povos Aparentados. In Na presença dos Espíritos - Arte Africana do Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisboa. Lisboa: Museu Nacional de Etnologia, 2000, p. 114. Other kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158, in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola. Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 and 2002.R.252, in FELIX, Marc Leo. - 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook”. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15, and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167., Dim. - 26,6 x 14,8 x 0,9 cm
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