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Description : Wood Moika, Kasai occidental, Zaire, c. 1950 Kuba-Kete people Brown colored patina Mounting Height: 52 cm Very good condition This refined helmet mask 'kamboko' is made of wood and comes from the Kuba-Kete people, who are located in Moika in the province of Kasai occidental in Zaire. This dark brown colored mask has a sublime hair styling, whose pointed parts of the temples reach widely into the forehead. In the triangular middle-part of the hair styling, there can be seen a same shaped décor.The hair styling is a typical stylistic feature for nearly all masks and sculptures of all the tribes, belonging to the group of the Kuba. On the top of the head there is a round opening which is decorated with a coronal of raffia. The eyes are cone-shaped and cut in with red tint. The wooden mask is in very good condition with slight signs of wear. The height measures in 52 cm. (bal) Literature: L. Felix, 100 Peoples of Zaire and their sculpture p. 57/fig. 6. Kunst aus Zaire, Exhibition Catalogue Bremen, fig. 111. Art from Zaire, 100 Masterworks from the National Collection, p. 87/fig. 62. Sura Dji, Visages et racines du Zaire, Exhibition catalogue des Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Aug. 1982, p. 89/fig. 4.28. Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American collections, 1989, p. 419/fig. 1067. Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.
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