MC1749 Joli petit Masque féminin Songye Kifwebe miniature Mask Luba Julien Volper

Julien Volper

up to high altitudes in the Mitumba Mountains

ce qui empêche toute certitude

typical of the Ubangi area

ETHNIC GROUP: Luba

MC1749 Joli petit Masque féminin Songye Kifwebe miniature Mask Luba Julien VolperFor English, please have a look below CONGO DRC Beautiful female miniature mask Songye Kifwebe The Songye created these masks, among the most spectacular in black African art. The streaks that cover almost their entire surface would be a reminiscence of the labyrinthine journey that is the Bukishi initiation (Neyt, 2009, page 362) The magico religious power of the female Kifwebe masks "bifwebe bakashi" is associated with the moon and reincarnated