A CHOKWE MASK AND COSTUME

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A CHOKWE MASK AND COSTUME
The costume comprising shirt with attached gloves, leggings and shoes with attached hide soles, woven in bands of black, cream and brown fibre; the curved rectangular metal mask with attached red cloth, black cloth and white paper about the border, attached black cloth crescents and other geometric motifs, knotted fibre head-covering with rattan ring above with fibre hair (2)

來源

This lot and the following lot were found in a WWII ammunition box sent to a Mr. H.R. Beck, Bishop School, Amman via Akaba, 1923

注意事項

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

拍品專文

Marc Felix (in Makishi Lya Zambia, Munich, 1998, p.278) identifies a similar costume as being for the Chisaluke masquerade. He states that the Chisaluke costume, unlike those of other masks, is worn very tightly. He illustrates a similar mask (p.303) to the present lot which he identifies as Ngaji, which he states: "is perceived both as a beautiful, non-aggressive ancestral representation that performs for the enjoyment of the community and as a judge. The mask is endowed with great supernatural power."