Lot 0053

Songye or Nsapo Prestige Staff

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Item Details

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Democratic Republic of Congo. Figural chief's or high-ranking personage's type staff with two headed male figure finial and base with male figure and with two flat plaques with incised geometric carving front and back, the lower plaque having a protruding mask or face. On custom gallery stand. Approx. 38 1/2" in length. Provenance: Estate of Thomas McNemar, (1931-2020.) McNemar lived and collected throughout Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 70s. He established galleries of African Art in New York and San Francisco, selling to museums and public and private collections in the United States and Europe.