A Superb and Highly Important Songye Community Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo the male figure standing on parted legs, wearing a fibre belt with a wooden club and an antelope horn (kobus ellipsiprymnus) attached, the hands resting on the compact abdomen and framing a magical charge behind sheeted tin, with necklaces of nile lizard skin (varanus niloticus) and glass beads around the neck, surmounted by a massive head covered with sheet copper and metal tacks, with a magical charge in the mouth and another on top of the head; 'FC8607' in white pigment on the reverse bottom; exceptionally fine honey brown patina with encrustation and corrosion on metal parts. height 35 in. 88.9 cm
A Superb and Highly Important Songye Community Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo the male figure standing on parted legs, wearing a fibre belt with a wooden club and an antelope horn (kobus ellipsiprymnus) attached, the hands resting on the compact abdomen and framing a magical charge behind sheeted tin, with necklaces of nile lizard skin (varanus niloticus) and glass beads around the neck, surmounted by a massive head covered with sheet copper and metal tacks, with a magical charge in the mouth and another on top of the head; 'FC8607' in white pigment on the reverse bottom; exceptionally fine honey brown patina with encrustation and corrosion on metal parts. height 35 in. 88.9 cm
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