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Mask – Plant fibre, Wood – Mwana Pwo – Chokwe – Congo

 125,00

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Description

A fine female Mwana Pwo mask from the Tschokwe tribe of DR Congo
The Chokwe are well known for art objects produced to celebrate and validate the royal court.

Expressive dance mask that represents the ideal type of woman Mwana PWO.
Artful coiffure of fibres, coloured with Tukula powder.

Mwana Pwo mask with beautiful brownish patina.
The scarification marks, which may duplicate those of the actual woman whose beauty inspired the carver, include the cingelyengelye design on the forehead. This cruciform design was probably derived from tin pendants traded into the Chokwe region by Portuguese voyagers as early as the seventeenth century.

Material: mask carved from wood, mask face brownish black sweating layered patina.
Good condition with a beautiful patina.

OBJECT: Mask

INDIGENOUS OBJECT NAME: Mwana Pwo

ETHNIC GROUP/ CULTURE: Chokwe

REGION/ COUNTRY: Congo

MATERIAL: Plant fibre, Wood

PERIOD: 2nd half 20th century

CONDITION: Good

SOLD WITH STAND: No

DIMENSIONS: 39×22×16 cm

WEIGHT: 1400 g

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