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Lot Essay
« Généralement, le personnage [des statues khosi] est représenté debout, comme prêt à intervenir, mais les yeux sont baissés ou mi-clos, comme pour une méditation profonde. On est tenté de trouver une correspondance entre une telle imagerie et le contexte rituel, c’est-à-dire que l’image exprime le rôle médiateur des anciens dans les cas de malheur, de maladie et de mort au temps passé aussi bien qu’à présent. […] Les personnages debout sont sculptés de manière expressive et schématisée. Le sculpteur accorde plus d’importance à la tête qu’aux parties du corps. Le couvre-chef [coiffure typique des chefs de terre et de lignage] comporte souvent des prolongements verticaux et latéraux, ou s’élevant en un, deux ou trois cimiers. »
Ce très bel exemplaire peut être rapproché de celui illustré par Arthur Bourgeois, Art of the Yaka and Suku, Meudon, 1984, p. 201, n° 188, ouvrage d’où est tiré ce développement sur la statuaire Yaka et Suku.
“Generally, the figure [of Khosi statues] is represented standing, as if ready to act, yet the eyes are lowered or half-closed, suggesting deep meditation. One is tempted to find a correspondence between such imagery and the ritual context, meaning that the image expresses the mediatory role of elders in cases of misfortune, illness, and death, both in the past and in the present. […] The standing figures are carved in an expressive and schematized manner. The sculptor accords greater importance to the head than to other parts of the body. The headdress [typical of territorial and lineage chiefs] often features vertical or lateral extensions, or rises in one, two, or three crests.”
This particularly fine example can be compared with the one illustrated by Arthur Bourgeois, Art of the Yaka and Suku, Meudon, 1984, p. 201, no. 188, the source from which this discussion of Yaka and Suku statuary is drawn.
Ce très bel exemplaire peut être rapproché de celui illustré par Arthur Bourgeois, Art of the Yaka and Suku, Meudon, 1984, p. 201, n° 188, ouvrage d’où est tiré ce développement sur la statuaire Yaka et Suku.
“Generally, the figure [of Khosi statues] is represented standing, as if ready to act, yet the eyes are lowered or half-closed, suggesting deep meditation. One is tempted to find a correspondence between such imagery and the ritual context, meaning that the image expresses the mediatory role of elders in cases of misfortune, illness, and death, both in the past and in the present. […] The standing figures are carved in an expressive and schematized manner. The sculptor accords greater importance to the head than to other parts of the body. The headdress [typical of territorial and lineage chiefs] often features vertical or lateral extensions, or rises in one, two, or three crests.”
This particularly fine example can be compared with the one illustrated by Arthur Bourgeois, Art of the Yaka and Suku, Meudon, 1984, p. 201, no. 188, the source from which this discussion of Yaka and Suku statuary is drawn.