*A receptacle statuette with a removable head... Lot 234

*A receptacle statuette with a removable head and neck, the lower part of the belly is scarified, the body is hollowed out and it could be a snuffbox statuette, the tradition of which is well known in Angola, but it could also be a rarer statuette, as is the case not far from the Yaka and Suku of the Kasongo Lunda region, of a receptacle that contained ingredients used in investment ceremonies. For statuettes such as those mentioned above, see: Arts of the Yaka and the Suku, Chaffin ed. 1984, pp. 43-44, illustrations 10-13. Tchokwé or Lwéna, Angola Wood, copper wire, resin, beautiful patina of use. H : 19,4 cm Provenance : - Personal collection of Charles-Émile Thiébaud (1910-1995), member of the Swiss Scientific Mission to Angola, radiating from the Cubango to the Mukoti, Cuvelai, Lunda, Cuene, and Kuanyama country, with Théodore Delachaux (former curator of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel) and under the direction of Albert Monard, collected between March 1932 and November 1933 during the second Swiss mission to Angola. - Swiss private collection. *This lot is sold as a temporary import.