MC1723 Grande statue d'ancêtre BASIKASINGO (54cm) Mizi ou Mizimu Pre Bembe masque TYPE D'OBJET: Siège

TYPE D'OBJET: Siège

The Bambole are a people whose rites have remained quite mysterious to us

5 cm with the horn

these cephalomorphic divining pestles were used by diviners to grind kaolin and to communicate with spirits

CONDITION : Medium - Bad

MC1723 Grande statue d'ancêtre BASIKASINGO (54cm) Mizi ou Mizimu Pre Bembe masque TYPE D'OBJET: SiègeFor English, please have a look below CONGO DRC Large BASIKASINGO ancestor statue (54cm) Mizi or Mizimu The Basikasingo live in eastern Congo, northwest of Lake Tanganyika, in the South Kivu Province, in the Fizi Territory, and more precisely in the Lulenge Sector. They are also called Pre Bembe by some specialists like D. Biebuyck ( Biebuyck 1981) or considered a Boyo (or Buyu) lineage by others, such as Nicolas de Kun, (de Kun, 1979) Like the Hemba