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This is the rating and price for Fetish Figure Biteki, 1966.0


Description : wood, pigments, plant fibres/ leaves, fabric, inventory number 66.524, brittle fabric Small figures which are used as receptacles or supports for magical preparations are called biteki. When they are charged with magical ingredients, the image becomes a particular type of nkisi, the medicine-poison that make ill - kukwata or make well - kubuka by an invisible influence. Published in: Negro African Art, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1966, p. 23, no. 110 Continent: Africa
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About the lot N° 356
Title : Fetish Figure Biteki, Period : 1966.0
Size : H: 18 cm, H: 7,1 inch
Provenance : Nancy & Gerhard Mennen Williams, Michigan, USA (as a gift to) Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA (Accession no. 66.524) Williams built his collection of West African art while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the 1960s. He donated a part of his collection to The Detroit Institute of Arts about 1968.
Literature : Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 107
Condition report : See description
Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer, Würzburg, DE It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : 94 Tribal Art Auction
Sale date : 07 Mar 2020 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale
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