Songye peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
17th to 18th century
Wood, animal horn, copper, steel, human teeth, reptile skin, glass beads
Height: 117 cm
Provenance
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, field collected in 1959
Kegel-Konietzko Collection, Hamburg
Selected Exhibition History
28 October, 1992-10 Janurary, 1993, Munich, Villa Stuck, Gods Spirits Ancestors. African Sculpture from Private German Collections
Selected Publication History
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Gods Spirits Ancestors. African Sculpture from Private German Collections, Munich, 1992, p. 212, cat. 175
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Götter Geister Ahne: Afrikanische Skulpturen in deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1992, p. 212, cat. 175