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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Songye-Kiwebe ritual basket, 60 cm. Magic-religious basket featuring a beautiful Kiwébé-type male statuette with striated face and white kaolin. Two wooden sculptures, a rooster and a large bird with a missing beak, covered with a cloth amalgamated with a "magical" substance, two earthenware or wooden bottles also covered in the same way. A small monkey skull with cowrie shells inlaid in the eye sockets.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Songye-Kiwebe ritual basket, 60 cm. Magic-religious basket featuring a beautiful Kiwébé-type male statuette with striated face and white kaolin. Two wooden sculptures, a rooster and a large bird with a missing beak, covered with a cloth amalgamated with a "magical" substance, two earthenware or wooden bottles also covered in the same way. A small monkey skull with cowrie shells inlaid in the eye sockets.
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