Mask - Kete (Kuba Subgroup) - D.R. Congo - SOLD

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The 7,500 Kete live between the Luba and Songye. They intermingled with the Kuba when the latter migrated into their territory. Like their neighbors, they subside off agriculture, fishing and hunting. The Kete are matrilineal and they worship the ancestor Sebu. Initiations are carried out within the rituals of the tshiburu society.
18"H x 10"W x 5"D

PROVENANCE:

Marc Felix, Director of the Congo Basin Art History Research Foundation in Brussels and author of "100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture"

Acquired from the above in the 1980s by Lee Bronson, whose collection was published in "A Survey of Zairian Art-The Bronson Collection" authored by the worlds leading authority on the area, Joseph Cornet.