Metoko Kukungu Male Figure, Congo #174 Idoma These gorgeous beads would have

These gorgeous beads would have been enormously exotic and richly colored

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Metoko Kukungu Male Figure, Congo #174 Idoma These gorgeous beads would haveMetoko Kukungu Male Figure, Congo #174 Very beautiful stylization of the face and the silhouette which aesthetically gives the statue an almost "robot" style. The Metoko People are the descendants of Lega migrants settled in the area of the middle Lwalaba, in the heart of the Equatorial Forest. Like the Lega People, their Political and Social Life is organized around a Secret Initiatory Association, the Bukota. The Bukota Society welcomes both men and