Lot 132
132
A LEGA BONE FIGURE, standing with the arms at the sides, legs apart, the face with dotted circlet eyes, shallow nose and small notched mouth, a zigzag of dots on the head, about the shoulders and double row down the back and front of the body, a zigzag about the neck, notched hands and feet, creamy patina with traces of camwood

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A LEGA BONE FIGURE, standing with the arms at the sides, legs apart, the face with dotted circlet eyes, shallow nose and small notched mouth, a zigzag of dots on the head, about the shoulders and double row down the back and front of the body, a zigzag about the neck, notched hands and feet, creamy patina with traces of camwood
12.7cm. high

Lot Essay

Biebuyck (1973, Pl.84) illustrates an almost identical figure collected by him in 1952 from Nkasa, a lutumbo lwa kindi of the Banagabo clan, Bakisi sector, Shabunda territory, after a mizegele rite. The figurine represents Keitula, the heart of the one who holds the wickerwork rattles

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