Description
Bembe fetish, Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood with a brown patina shaded in red. (Small accidents). Height : 19,5 cm Female effigy, bent and powerful legs supporting a bust marked by deep scarifications. The left hand holds a medicine gourd. The face, slightly oversized, is smiling, the eyes slit. Reliquary piercing under the buttocks. Beautiful lacquered patina deeply inlaid.
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Bembe fetish, Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood with a brown patina shaded in red. (Small accidents). Height : 19,5 cm Female effigy, bent and powerful legs supporting a bust marked by deep scarifications. The left hand holds a medicine gourd. The face, slightly oversized, is smiling, the eyes slit. Reliquary piercing under the buttocks. Beautiful lacquered patina deeply inlaid.