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MBUTI/BAMBUTI, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Co…
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MBUTI/BAMBUTI, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Co…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
MBUTI/BAMBUTI, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Beaten bark cloth, pigments.
Two pieces of fabric known as ‘tapa’, made by the ‘Mbuti’ Pygmy hunter-gatherers. It is the men who prepare the tapa using a supple and durable bark from a species of Ficus; the tapa is then soaked in mud and decorated by the women.
67x30.5 cm and 63x35 cm.
Bibliography:
-‘Pygmies?’ Paintings on beaten bark by the Mbuti (Upper Zaire). Robert Farris Thompson and Serge Bahuchet.
- ‘Pictorial Art of the Pygmies’, Barbier-Mueller Museum, 1990.
Provenance: Collection of the photographer Angelo Turconi, Belgium/Italy.
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