A kisanji wood and iron lamellophone carved decoration "Geometric motifs" Angolan - Tshokwe 20th C. (1st quarter) missing lamellae, minor defects, patine wear purchased from Samoroci of Sanzala Muanachina - right side of C.F.B railway at km 1056, near Luena (former Luso) - on July 12, 1974 Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 13 x 9,5 x 0,5 cm Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, item number 221, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified in it as «Quissanje»: "Decoration: a rectangle flanked by 6 lines(?) arranged parallel to the longer sides [...] the rectangle is decorated with incisions. 4 next to the longer sides (4+4); in the central part incisions (approximately) 30º forming in the central part a lozenge and 6 triangles. [...] Purchased from the same person as item 220 (Samoroci of Sanzala Muanachina, right side of the C.F.B railway at km 1056, near Luena [former Luso]) and on the same date (12. July. 1974) [...]." Other 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.