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Description : Big power figure biteki na matompa D. R. Congo, Teke wood, greyish brown patina, red paint, hatched linear scarification marks on the cheeks, the consecrated substances bilongo are fixed to the abdomen, forehead and back of the head with the aid of a resinous material, traces of mass and sacrificial offerings (feathers) at the mouth, dam., cracks, missing parts through insect caused damage and weathering (both feet), water spots, on metal plate, such protective and magical figures are used as a prophylaxis against sleeping sickness and other illnesses. In some examples the medicine package bilongo is missing. Such packages are often scraped out by the nganga, little by little, and sold as healing or protective dust. The biteki are figures supposed to act magically, opposed to the buti, the ancestor figures. H: 79 cm H: 31.1 inch Provenance Yann Ferrandin, Paris, France Literature Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, München 2009, p. 575 f.
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