Lot 155
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A KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE, mbulu ngulu

Details
A KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE, mbulu ngulu
With pierced triangular body surmounted by an oval face with arched brows, flat nose, cylindrical eyes, flaring side panels, semicircular crest, unpolished brass sheets attached to wood core with flaring copper element in center of brow
15¼in. (38.7cm.) high
Provenance
André Lefevre, Paris
Literature
Wardwell, 1960, no.172a
Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, Nov.16 - Dec.31, 1960

Lot Essay

Perrois (1986, p.72, 73; p.191) places the origin of this Kota style in the Obamba Mindumu Region. Two similar examples in the Girardin collection were shown in an exhibition of his collection in Paris in 1986 (Musée d'Art Moderne, 1986, pp.112-13, nos.59 and 60).