Lot 1622
LUVALE MASK
ZAMBIA
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities
Auction: 16 September 2020 at 15:00 BST
Description
carved wood, coffee-bean eyes, slender nose and sensitively rendered lips, raised on a bespoke mount
Dimensions
12cm tall
Footnote
Provenance:
Kevin Conru, Brussels
Bernice and Terence Pethica Collection, United Kingdom
Published:
Klopper, Nettleton and Pethica, The Art of Southern Africa, The Terence Pethica Collection 2007, p. 82, n° 28
Note:
"Luvale communities continue to use masks to this day. Associated with the initiation of boys into adulthood, these masks were and are still worn in combination with woven fibre costumes. Since all initiation masks were ascribed particular attributes, they played a number of different roles in the education of initiates during their seclusion in the bush." Klopper, Nettleton and Pethica, 2007