Title: Pende Mbuya jia kifutshi wood mask - DRC Congo - African Art Tribal ArtType: MaskDate/Period: Mid 20th centuryOrigin: DRC CongoDimension: 13,39 InchWeight: 1,65 PoundsMaterial: WoodNote: Stand not included.Additional Information: It is the accessories and the hairstyle of the dancer that make it possible to identify in many cases the character embodied by a Pende mask, this copy being devoid. Wearing spikes, it is a chef or a dignitary fumu , who intercedes with the ancestors in order to guarantee his people benefits and security. More marked traits refer to pumbu, killer-justice. The male-looking mask features lowered eyelids that form the specificity of the Pende. Burgundy patina. The Western Pende live on the banks of the Kwilu, while the Easterners have settled on the banks of the Kasai river downstream of Tshikapa. The influences of the neighbouring ethnic groups, Mbla, Suku, Wongo, Leele, Kuba and Salempasu, were imprinted on their large tribal art sculpture. Within this diversity the Mbuya, realistic, produced every ten years, have a festive function, and embody different characters difficult to differentiate without their costume, including the head fumu or ufumu, the soothsayer and his wife, the prostitute, the buffoon, tundu, the possessed, etc. The Mbuya initiation masks linked to the initiation mukanda and those of power, the minganji, represent the ancestors and occur successively during the same ceremonies, agricultural festivals, rituals of initiation and circumcision mukanda, induction of the chief.
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