Lot 236: A Yaka or Lula Fetish figure

A Yaka or Lula Fetish figure, Yaka or Lula; Kwilu-Kwango; D.R. Congo

The figure with simple face with backswept coif, the body encased in empowering materials wrapped in old cloth with a thin bamboo tube rising at each shoulder, feathers and remains of fiber. H. 10 3/4"

Comments:
Property of a New York estate

Provenance:
Alfred Schienberg, 1971, The Gallery of African Art. NY

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