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Description : A kisanji, wood and iron lamellophone, carved decoration with geometric motifs Messo-ia-issacala, Angolan - Tshokwe, 20th C. (1st quarter), missing lamellae, minor defects, patine wear, purchased in a village north of Munhango (about 20 km) in 1965. Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, item number 143, referred to in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified as «Quissanje Kakolondondo»: Decorated with incisions with a motif bearing the name of «messo-ia-issacala», which represents the eyes of the «issacala» bird through the bars of a cage.[...] Purchased in a village north of Munhango (about 20 km) in 1965 [...] Others kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158, in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola. Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 e 2002.R.252, in FELIX, Marc Leo. - 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook”. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15, and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167., Dim. - 17,5 x 10,4 x 0,8 cm
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