Male Téké statue, Democratic Republic of Congo, made of wood having kept its green fabric protecting the Bilongo, the latter having been removed, it gives birth to a cavity showing that it has been desecrated.

The owners of these fetishes can detach the Bilongo and integrate it to other statues to sell them.

Traditional face adorned with a broad trapezoidal beard, nose and forehead marked with a crease on the temples and cheeks scarified with a cross, beautiful headdress in the shape of a helmet.

The style of these figures is strictly cubist, angular.

Origin : 

• Lehuard collection (collected between 1924 and 1933 in Congo Brazzaville)
• Leconte collection

Publication :

• Batéké collected by Robert Lehuard édition Alain Leconte, S.R Kovo N’Sondé 2017 page 84