SINGITI

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A FINE LUBA HEMBA MALE FIGURE
Singiti
Standing with the arms carved free of the body and the hands each side of the abdomen, the face with finely carved features, double notched beard, notched hairline, the coiffure carved as a flared rectangle projecting at the back with pierced cruciform motif at the centre and a triangle in relief on each of the four panels, dark glossy patina
54cm. high

Literature

Neyt, F.: La Grande Statuaire Hemba du Zaïre, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1977, p.362, figs. 25, 26 and 27
Rolin, F.: Luba Hemba, New York, 1979, p.29, fig.35

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Lot Essay

Neyt (op.cit., p.371) attributes this unusual figure to a southern Hemba style. Another figure, probably by the same hand and formerly also in the collection of Baron Freddy Rolin is illustrated on the same page

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