KUBA MASK
pwoom itok - image-1

Lot 171 Dα

KUBA MASK pwoom itok

Auktion 1216 - Übersicht Brussels
01.02.2023, 14:00 - African and Oceanic Art
Schätzpreis: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Ergebnis: 5.750 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

KUBA MASK
pwoom itok
Democratic Republic of the Congo

39 cm. high

Cf. Siegmann, W., "African Art: a Century at the Brooklyn Museum", Brooklyn, 2009, p.245, for an almost identical mask collected in 1922 and attributed to the Bushoong or Ngeende. According to Joseph Cornet the mask is the creation of the Ngeende people and various names are recorded – pwoom itok, ishendemala and ishyeenmaal.

Provenienz

Compagnie du Kasai
Private collection, Belgium