Rare LUBA Anthropo Zoomorphic Buffalo Mask Congo Drc
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LUBA large anthropo-zoomorphic mask
This type of mask with human head surrounded by a pair of buffalo horns is quite rare among the Luba, their use and their meaning remain quite mysterious
We think immediatly about the most famous mask from Central Africa, "harvested" in 1899 by Commander Michaux, preserved in the Museum of Tervuren and illustrated in countless publications including Trésors d'Afrique (p191 ill 157 notice page 352)
LUBA (F. Neyt p209) LUBA (Nooter 2006, planche 20 notice page 128)
The Luba are a great people in eastern DRC.
Their caryatid seats, their cup holders, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and ancestral statues are very famous and among the most valued objects in African Art.
PROVENANCE: Ex Private French-Belgian collection of Mr. Ph V.
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Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 11 3/4 (h) x 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
CONDITION: Medium
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Base is included
Bibliographie - Bibliography
- Trésors d'Afrique, Musée de Tervuren, ouvrage collectif, MRAC, 1995
- LUBA, aux sources du Zaïre, François NEYT, Editions du Musée Dapper, 1993.
- LUBA, Visions d'Afrique, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts et Allen F. Roberts, 2006
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996
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Rare LUBA Anthropo Zoomorphic Buffalo Mask Congo Drc
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