Power figure "khosi" - D. R. Congo, Suku / Holo

wood, pigment, base
According to a personal note, Schwab acquired this figure during his trip to the Congo in 1969/70 in the area of the Kwango River.
He reports that he exchanged it for "clothes, knife, hat etc." from a "bone breaker" (medicine man) and that the figure should protect against malevolent people and diseases.
H: 31,5 cm, H: 12,4 inch
Provenance:
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 261") (coll. in situ, 1969/70)
Condition Report: See description