FOR THE KEBEKEBE MASQUERADE

细节

A KUYU HEAD
For the kebekebe masquerade
With engraved narrow eyes below grooved brows, lenticular mouth, a carved disc on the forehead flanked by keloid scarification, further keloids below the ears, the cross-hatched domed coiffure surmounted by a pangolin whose tail hangs over the nape of the neck, two bands of scorched and engraved chevrons about the neck
43cm. high

来源

Lorenz Eckert, Basel

展览

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1971, Afrique Noire, Sculptures des collections privée suisses, no.70

注意事项

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拍品专文

Such heads were carried by a dancer enveloped in a large white sheet, probably representing Ebotita, the primordial ancestor of the Kuyu. During the kebekebe they put themselves under the protection of the great serpent, Ebongo. The present example probably dates from the time of World War I (William Fagg for catalogue of Josef Müller collection, 13 June 1978, lot 141)