Mask - Congo (No reserve price)

also by the fetishist during ritual ceremonies. This type of slit drum is adorned with a carved head and has two sticks housed in the resonator box.

Dark brown glossy patina, with light abrasions.

The Songyes are a Bantu people of Central Africa, primarily established in the south of Gabon, also in the Republic of the Congo in the Niari region. They live in independent villages divided into clans and families. Social cohesion is ensured by the Moukouji society, whose essential role is to subjugate the malignant spirits of the forest. Within this same group named Shira, the Lumbu, Loumbu, Balumbu, located on the coastal part of Gabon, and in the Republic of Congo, preserve the bones of their ancestors in reliquary baskets adorned with figurines and other prestige objects. Litt