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Description : A Kisanji with gourd, wood and iron lamellophone, with gourd (which works as a resonance box), carved decoration Geometric motifs, Angolan - Tshokwe, 20th C. (mid), missing a lamella, minor defects, major patina wear, purchased in Mucussueje (Moxico) on 18-3-1971. Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Fig. 4 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. 12. Original work available at consulted on March 16, 2023 at 11:16. Item number 148, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified in it as «Kakolondondo»:Decoration by incisions - rectangle with 3 motifs, the central one is reminiscent of a stylized mucupela 2-stroke drum. Above the rectangle are three circumferential arches. [...] Purchased in Mucussueje [Moxico], on 18.3.71 [...]. According to José Redinha The kisanjis «lungando, «muiemba», «kakolondondo», «tchakel» and «saso» usually apply sounding boards made of gourds. - cf. 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. 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. - (quissanje) 11,6 x 7,3 x 0,5 cm
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