Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo - CGM22
Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo - CGM22
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Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo - CGM22


Renowned for their majestic royal ancestral representations. The prominence of the large and bulging closed eyes refers to the subject’s status as a being endowed with a heightened sense of the spiritual realm. Cared for and kept in a shrine as an important statue which was given given the name of the ancestor it represented.

Ex. Leonard Kahan Gallery, New York Ex. Christopher and Genevieve McConnell collection

Height: 16 3/8" x Width: 5 1/8" x Depth: 5 1/4"

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