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LUBA cult figure statue sculpture Congo African Tribal Art 1277: CONGO DRC Female cult figure LUBA 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 am

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LUBA cult figure statue sculpture Congo African Tribal

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Title: LUBA cult figure statue sculpture Congo African Tribal Art 1277

Additional Information: CONGO DRC
Female cult figure
LUBA
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.
Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Statue, figure
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 13 inches high
15 1/4 " with the base
CONDITION: Bad
Please have a look on the pictures
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- LUBA, aux sources du Zaire, François NEYT,
Editions du Musee Dapper, 1993.
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996

Reserve: $375.00

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