SOLD - SOLD! Male miniature mask mask SONGYE Kifwebe Mask Congo DRC MC0994

SOLD - SOLD! Male miniature mask mask SONGYE Kifwebe Mask Congo DRC MC0994

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CONGO DRC

SONGYE KIFWEBE MINIATURE MASK
Pretty Male Masquette

Kifwebe masks instantly evoke Cubism.
The streaks that cover practically their entire surface would be a reminiscence of the labyrinthine journey that is the Bukishi initiation


Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICITY: Songye - Basongye.
ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo.
(Ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaire).
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm
CONDITION: OK
(See photos).
The base is included

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Bibliography - SONGYE - Bibliography

Masks - Masks
- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985
- Colors, Streaks and Projections, Dunja Hersak, in Objects Signs of Africa, Texts collected by Luc de Heusch, Snoek, Pages 161-173
- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008
- Masks Kifwebe, Woods Dawy, Tribal Art Magazine N° 20 Spring 2008 Pages 102-113
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.

Fetishes - Power figures
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.
- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008

 Shields - Shields
- Objects Signs of Africa, texts brought together by Luc de Heusch, "Colors, Stries and Projections", Dunja Hersak, sd Snoek, Pages 161-173
- Shields, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the collection Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Prestel, 2000
- Shields of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Adam Biro, 1998
- Arts of Black Africa, in the Barbier Mueller collection, presented by Werner Schmalenbach, Fondation Maeght, 1989 p264 Note by Joseph Cornet
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.
- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985


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 CONGO DRC




 Songye Male Miniature Kifwebe Mask





 The Songye have created these masks among the most impressive


 of the art of Black Africa. They evoke us instantly Cubism.

 The streaks that cover almost their entire surface would be a reminiscence of the labyrinthic course that is the initiation Bukishi


 


Features:




 TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask


 ETHNICAL GROUP: Songye - Basongye


 COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Democratic Republic Congo
 
MATERIAL: Wood.


 DIMENSIONS: About 4 1/2 inches high.


 CONDITION: Medium


 Please have a look on pictures.


 Stand display is included.