Songye Kifwebe Teaching Figure, D.R. Congo
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DESCRIPTION: Wooden carved Kifwebe teaching figure, Songye, D.R. Congo. Wears customary costume for initiation ceremony: Blackened fiber strips attached to a row of holes on the bottom of the mask, a conical fiber woven projection coming out from the back of the head that usually has feathers at the end and a fiber netting that is attached to the back of the mask that drapes over the wearer's head and shoulders. A fiber-netting shirt and pants with an animal pelt worn around the waist. Inside the mask or netting a medicine pouch is attached to give power to the mask. MEASUREMENTS: Approximately 15” tall. CONDITION: Losses to surface. Losses to feathers on mask. Minimal wear throughout.
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Songye Kifwebe Teaching Figure, D.R. Congo
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