African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 8th June 2021
Lot 227
A Kuyu head kebe kebe
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £400
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Description
A Kuyu head kebe kebe
Democratic Republic of the Congo
the coiffure pierced for feathers, with facial scarifications and filed teeth, with pigment decoration, the back with later scratched initials A B,
54.5cm high, on a stand. (2)
Provenance
Christie's, Paris, Art Africain et Oceanien, 4 Dec 2008, lot 166, part.