A kisanji wood and iron lamellophone carved decoration with geometric motifs "Messo-ia-issacala" Angolan - Tshokwe 20th C. (1st quarter) missing lamellae, minor defects, patine wear purchased in a village north of Munhango (about 20 km) in 1965 Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 17,5 x 10,4 x 0,8 cm Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, item number 143, referred to in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified as «Quissanje Kakolondondo»: "Decorated with incisions with a motif bearing the name of «messo-ia-issacala», which represents the eyes of the «issacala» bird through the bars of a cage.[...] Purchased in a village north of Munhango (about 20 km) in 1965 [...]  Others kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - "Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar". Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158; in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - "A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola". Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 e 2002.R.252; in FELIX, Marc Leo. - "100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook”. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15; and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. "La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167.