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CONGO DRC

BEMBE

RARE  CIRCUMCISION MASK

ELUBA YA BUTENDE

The circumcision (butende) is a very important and indispensable event for the Bembe. It gives rise to great ceremonies.

Pol Pierre Gossiaux, a specialist in this region of eastern Congo, comments on a similar mask that was used to frighten: "notably the alternation of the colors .... ......, signaled the dangerous nature of those who wore it , sacred and monstrous embryos"

 

CHARACTERISTICS :

 

TYPE OF OBJECT : Mask.

ETHNICAL GROUP : Bembe

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : Democratic Republic Congo

(ex Zaire, ex Belgian Congo)

MATERIAL : Wood

DIMENSIONS : About 11 1/4  inches high

CONDITION : Correct

Please have a look on pictures

BASE IS NOT INCLUDED

BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :

- Masks in Congo, Viviane Baeke, Baeke, Arthur Bourgeois, Kellim Brown, David Binkley, Rik Ceyssens, Marc Leo Felix, Pol Pierre Gossiaux, Manuel Jordanl, Constantin Petridis, Zoe Stroher, Julien Volper, Pan Yanqin. Edition Marc Leo Felix, 2016, pages 260-261