Finely carved miniature fetish figure "biteke"

D. R. Congo, Teke

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Michel Thieme, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Piet Lepelaar, Leiden, The Netherlands	H: 3.7 inch	This object is not available anymore.

wood, pigments, base

This figurine could be a personal protective figure "nkumi".

Felix, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture, Brussels 1987, p. 172 f.