ckurumba
Origin : DRC
Size : 7" x 3,1"
Weight : 0,5 lbs
Material : Wood
Settled on the plateaux of the People's Republic of Congo (ex.Brazzaville), and not to be confused with the Bembé group north of Lake Tanganinyika, the small Babembé, Béembé group was influenced by Téké rites and culture, but above all by that of the Kongo.Settled in the present-day Republic of Congo, the Béembé originally formed the Kongo kingdom, along with the Vili, Yombé, Bwendé and Woyo. Hunting being a major activity, ancestors were invoked through statuettes. These idealized representations of ancestors, kitebi or bimbi, consecrated by the sorcerer, bore the attributes of hunters or healers. Some of them, like those of the Bakongo, were minkisi magic objects with nails and openings through which bilongo medicines or ancestral relics were introduced. This statuette has an anal orifice for this purpose.
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