Neck rest - Wood - Tsonga headrest

Headrests Tsonga - South Africa

If Tsonga headrests offer, among this type of movable object so widespread in traditional African cultures of South Africa, the greatest formal and stylistic diversity, those featuring a zoomorphic subject stand out as among the rarest and most striking.

The modernity of the form — expressed, in the dynamics of volumes reduced to essentials, the full power of the animal — is heightened by the abstraction of the play of lines, especially the motif of concentric circles punctuating the ends of the lintel, and by the nuances of the glossy dark red patina.