SOLD / SOLD! MC0516 Exceptional Neckrest Songye Congo DRC Basongye superb Neckrest

The Songye are a people living in the wooded savannas

of the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Like the Hemba, the Songye are culturally related to the Luba.

They are known artistically for their fetishes, their Kifwebe masks, their caryatid seats, their axes, their shields and their neckrests

-Supports of dreams, Christiane Falgayrettes, Dapper Foundation, 1989

-Head in the stars, Neck support from Africa and elsewhere, Pierre Loos, Thomas Bayet and Sophie Caltaux, Brussels - Bruneaf - 2012

Bibliography - SONGYE - Bibliography
Masks - Masks

- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985

- Colors, Streaks and Projections, Dunja Hersak, in Objects Signs of Africa, Texts collected by Luc de Heusch, Snoek, Pages 161-173

- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008

- Masks Kifwebe, Woods Dawy, Tribal Art Magazine N° 20 Spring 2008 Pages 102-113

- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.

Fetishes - Power figures

- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.

- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008

Shields - Shields

- Objects Signs of Africa, texts brought together by Luc de Heusch, "Colors, Stries and Projections", Dunja Hersak, sd Snoek, Pages 161-173

- Shields, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the collection Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Prestel, 2000

- Shields of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Adam Biro, 1998

- Arts of Black Africa, in the Barbier Mueller collection, presented by Werner Schmalenbach, Fondation Maeght, 1989 p264 Note by Joseph Cornet

- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.

- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985

CONGO DRC

Rare cephalomorphic Headrest

The Songye are a people living in the wooded savannas
in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Like the Hemba, the Songye are culturally related to the Luba.

They are artistically known by their fetishes, their Kifwebe masks, their caryatid seats, their axes, shields and headrests.

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Neckrest Headrest

ETHNICAL GROUP: Songye - Basongye

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Democratic Republic Congo

(ex Zaire, ex Belgian Congo).

MATERIAL: Wood.

DIMENSIONS: 7 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches

CONDITION: bad

Please have a look on pictures.