Chokwe Figure Mother and Child Congo

Overall Condition: Fair. Most of our pieces have spent decades on at least two continents, and have been treasured by several owners. We examine each piece carefully when we receive it and report any damage we find in our listings.  Please look carefully at the pictures which may also reveal condition and damage.

Damage/Repair: Crack through childs arm

The Chokwe share stylistic elements with a number of distinct but related peoples in Angola and the Congo. The most prominent of these peoples are the Chokwe but also include the Ovimbundu, Lunda, Lwena, Luvala, Minungu, Mbwela, Songo, and Imbangala. This is an area that has shared stylistic elements and figural forms based upon common mythologies and ritual practices possibly showing influences of Tabwa or Luba sculptural styles. Figures such as this could be found among a number of these groups and at the same time she may indeed not come from this large constellation of differing peoples but from a neighboring group influenced by them.