Lot: 338

94th Tribal Art Auction

Anthropomorphic mask "mbuya"

D. R. Congo, Pende

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands H: 10.2 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, pigments, plant fibre, raffia bast,
Taken out of the ritual context, the type of a mask can no longer be clearly determined. This mask could possibly be assigned to the "nganga ngombo mukhetu" type (female diviner).