Democratic Republic Of Congo (formerly Zaire), Ndengese People, Mid-20th Century, Old Anthropomorphic Statuette With Dark Patina

Old anthropomorphic statuette with dark patina

DRC (ex Zaire), Ndengese people
Mid-20th century


°°° Price can be reasonably negotiated °°°

Old statuette representing a seated male figure, atrophied legs and clearly expressed masculinity. The slender body with the chest barred with scarifications, the powerful shoulders, the arms bent, detached from the body and covered with scarifications in checkerboard patterns evoking the outfits adorned with pearls and cowries worn by the chiefs, the hands meeting, placed on the abdomen. The lower back has a large scarification with a triple diamond pattern, while the upper back takes up the patterns on the arms. A long ringed neck, slightly leaning forward, receives a disproportionate head. The face with great interiority has large coffee bean eyes separated by a keloid. A flat nose placed above a mouth projecting forward, the cheeks marked with circular scarifications. The top of the shaved head, the plateau-shaped hairstyle delicately decorated with incised diamonds, the eyebrow arches surmounted by two rows of keloids.

Wood
Dark patina wood, marks of use
5.2 x 18.5 cm without stand
Private collection