A FINE HEADREST, the waisted top with incised panel of cross-hatching to each end, the spiral support on flanged base pierced four times, further panels of incised ornament about the base, Lualaba area, probably Kete

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A FINE HEADREST, the waisted top with incised panel of cross-hatching to each end, the spiral support on flanged base pierced four times, further panels of incised ornament about the base, Lualaba area, probably Kete
13.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Related headrests, also collected by de Macar and now in the Musée Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, are published in Maes, Les Appuis-Tête du Congo Belge, 1929, pl.V, fig.22 and pl.VI, figs 29 and 30. All three are attributed to the Kete

See illustration on front cover

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