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Group of Three Mbuti Textiles
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Description
A set of three Mbuti bark cloths.
Newly framed in solid oak frames.
The Congo, 20th Century
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The Mbuti people, or Bambuti, are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Before the colonial era, bark cloth was the main item of men’s and women’s clothing in Central Africa. Women also carried small pieces of bark cloth and placed them over wooden stools. Women foragers of the Ituri Forest in north-eastern Congo paint rhythmical, free, oscillating patterns on pieces of pounded inner bark of the fig tree that has been beaten with a mallet made of ivory, bone or wood. The cutting and pounding of the bark is done by men. Often, working with a mixture of gardenia juice and carbon black women did most of the painting using a fibre brush.
Although much of the iconography remains undeciphered, they employ the same rich repertory of motif and design that they apply in painting the bodies of their family and friends. In addition, women are the architects of the Ituri world. And they are the masters of the polyphonic, yodel-like style of singing special to Ituri foragers. Ituri aesthetics links art and song. Both use polyphonic structures; contractions of intervals; macro-complications of structure in terms of successive passages; micro-complications of structure in terms of small motifs, modified at each repetition; staggered entrances and exits of line; and a strikingly playful multi-voiced mode of exposition. -
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Origin: Congo-Brazzaville Period: 1950-1979 Materials: Oak, Textile Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading. Creation Date: 20th Century Styles / Movements: Modern, Mid Century Dealer Reference #: 8195 Incollect Reference #: 600892 -
Dimensions
W. 26.38 in; H. 37.4 in; D. 1.18 in; W. 67 cm; H. 95 cm; D. 3 cm;
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