Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 268
A Kusu power figure
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £630
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Description
A Kusu power figure
Democratic Republic of the Congo
the top of the head with a charge of an inset cloth secured with wooden pegs, with a linear incised coiffure, slit eyes above cheek scarifications and pouting lips, the swollen belly with further incised scarifications, and with the hands either side,
27cm high, on a base. (2)
Provenance
Private Collection, Barcelona, Spain.
Jo de Buck, Brussels.
Exhibited
Paris Tribal, 2020.