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SOLD / SOLD! MC0904 Superb, powerful and very rare Nyanga mask (neighbors Lega and Kumu) mask

SOLD / SOLD! MC0904 Superb, powerful and very rare Nyanga mask (neighbors Lega and Kumu) mask

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English description below

CONGO DRC

SUPERB, POWERFUL AND VERY RARE NYANGA MASK **

Ancient mask, whose simplicity of form is matched only by its beauty and power

A rather similar mask is illustrated in "100 peoples of Zaire" (see Bibl.)
According to Daniel P. Biebuyck, who lived four years among them, the Nyanga, neighbors of the Lega, the Shi, the Hunde and the Kumu, are a small tribe whose population he estimated at 27,000 souls in 1949.
The Nyanga people live in North Kivu, but are historically from Mesopotamia. They would have passed through Lake Chad, then through Uganda in the Fort Portal region, to finally settle in the Walikale forest, north of Goma in Congo DRC (zoom on the Nyanga people, radio Okapi 2018)
(See map below)

**beware of the confusion between the "nyanga people" and the well-known "nyanga" masks of the Bobo people in Burkina Faso
Features:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNIC GROUP: Nyanga
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: Height 28 cm
39 cm with the base
CONDITION: OK
See photos.
PROVENANCE: Private collection
The base is included

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Bibliography - Bibliography:
- 100 peoples of Zaire and their sculpture. The handbook for collectors, scholars and students, Marc Leo Felix, Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987 Page 137

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CONGO DRC

VERY RARE AND POWERFUL NYANGA** People MASK

Old mask, whose simplicity of form is only matched by its beauty and power
A similar mask is shown in "100 peoples of Zaire" (see Bibl.)

According to Daniel P. Biebuyck, who lived among them for four years, the Nyanga, neighbors of the Lega, the Shi, the Hunde and the Kumu, are a small tribe whose population he estimated at 27,000 in 1949.

The Nyanga people live in North Kivu, but they would be originated historically from Mesopotamia, having passed by Lake Chad, then through Uganda in the region of Fort Portal, to finally settle in the forest of Walikale, north of Goma, in Congo DRC ( zoom on the Nyanga people, radio Okapi 2018)
(See map below)

** beware of the confusion between the "Nyanga people" and the well known "nyanga" masks of the Bobo people in Burkina Faso

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNIC GROUP: Nyanga
ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC (ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaire).
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 11 Inches high
15 1/4 with the base
CONDITION:  Medium
 Please have a look on the pictures.
PROVENANCE: Private collection
The stand display is included