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Mbochi warrior from modern-day Republic of the Congo

French vintage postcard

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Colors of Legends (V) Kuyu / Mbochi, schield, Republic of Congo. ~1880/1900. One of the most rarest shield of the African continent. Reason for what, they are very little known and not yet counterfeited… to date.  The braiding is strongly impregnated with ritual organic matters and has an authentic shiny and intact patina. On 1984, the Chief of Kuyu-Gandza Antoinette Ehouli, a great initiate of Tsengui (Secret Society of Women Panthers), is photographed, by the cultural anthropologist Anne-Marie Bénézech, wearing her ceremonial clothes and showing her war shield, transmitted as an ancestral power staff, became a Regalia.  Source: "THE DELAYED DISCOVERY OF KUYU OBJECTS", pg.6. by Madame, The Doctor in Cultural Anthropology Anne-Marie Bénézech, Published by the MEG, Ethnographic Museum of Geneva. POUPON Alfred Armand, "Ethnographic study of the kouyou tribe", Anthropologie, No. 29, 1918 - 1919. Also see the article in the excellent review "Tribal Art Magazine, No. 83, Spring 2017" pg.95. #artpremier #artpremiers #republiqueducongo #kuyu #mbochi #kouyou #congorepublic #newyorkartgallery #congohistory #tribalarts #tribalart #tribalartmagazine #tribalartlondon #brafa #bruneaf2018 #tefaf #congoculture #congobrazzaville #tribalartgallery #tribalartfair #tribalartauction #africantreasures #africaculture #africanculture #sothonecklace #africahistory #masterpiece #masterpieces #tribalartsociety #bourgognetribalshow https://www.instagram.com/p/BrLUfY2n_YI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17my398yo8apj