260232 - Old African Ndaaka mask provincie Ituri - Congo.

Old African Ndaaka mask provincie Ituri - Congo.
Hand carved from a single piece of wood, with color pigments and raffia.
Height: 24 cm only the wood mask, total 30 m with raffia beard.

This Ndaaka mask was collected between 1960 and 1970 and ended up in my private collection in 1993.
Mask Ndaaka these people live in the province of Ituri, north of the Kumu-Kom. A little to the west. Live from Ndaaka Baali to whom they are related.
The cover of Marc Leo Félix's excellent book ''Maks in Congo'' is illustrated, with a similar Ndaaka Baali mask, see pages 288-289-290-291.

An old dance mask made of light wood with raffia from the Ndaaka tribe. A Bantu ethnic group of 58,500 people living in northeastern DR Congo, in the Ituri province. Good condition. Materials: wood, pigments, raffia. Includes a certificate of origin.

Belgian private collection of
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek in 1949) graduated in the Visual Arts Department of Graphic Art at the Sint-Lukas Higher Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971. Maurice C. P. Verstuyf, aka Stef Verstuyf, was a senior art director and creative director at several international advertising agencies until 2014 and began his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and statues (not weapons) primarily from Congo (DRC), as well as Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.