GothamGallery Fine African Art - Tanzania Makonde Tribal Figure - Christmas SALE

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GothamGallery Fine African Art - Tanzania Makonde Tribal Figure - Christmas SALE:
$73.32

2014 Christmas Tribal Art Sale - Store Listed Items

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Outstanding African Tanzania / Mozambique Makonde Figure

Inches: Height: 19 Inches
Centimeters: Height: 48.5 Centimeters
Measurement Figure Only
Material: Wood
Estimated Age: Early 20th Century
Condition: Good
Remarks: Stylized figure dense wood simplified features geometric scarifications dynamic pose dark patina

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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, chips and scrapes, age cracks, worn areas, overall condition good. Thank you and please view my other items.BACKGROUND
Inhabiting the southeast of Tanzania and the northeast of Mozambique are about 500,000 Makonde, divided into matrilineal clans, each one comprising several villages. Clan members meet only for the ancestral cult and to celebrate initiations. The Makonde believe in a world of ancestor spirits and in malevolent spirits who make an appearance during the ceremonies that close initiation rites. According to legend, shortly after the Creation, the first man, wandering around outside the bush, sculpted a female figure out of wood, and the statue became a real woman who gave him many children and, after her death, became the venerated ancestress of the Makonde. This accounts for the ancestress cult as well as the profusion of sculpted female figures, kept in huts. During this intensive months-long ritual, girls and boys were provided with knowledge and skills essential to the Makonde way of life. The Makonde practice of carving protective ancestor figures predates the colonial era.

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Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

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