Figurative hair pin - Mangbetu - Congo - SOLD

Wonderfully refined traditional hair pin from the Mangbetu peopleIvory traditional pin carved to the top with human head with conical shaped hair with roll to the base. The facial features with almond shaped eyes and slit for mouth.Mangbetu artists are famed for reducing sculptural elements to their simplest forms, as exemplified by this beautiful hair pin. Two or more of these pins would be worn by women in their distinctive bound hairstyles and were prized possessions of people of high rank in society. 

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Ethnic group
Mangbetu
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo