Luba, Bowl Carrier

Title: Yoruba People,Nigeria.Statue Bowl Carrier. Date/Period: 1940 Origin: Nigeria Dimension: 51,5 x 30 x 15- Tribe/Designer/Artist: yoruba Additional Information: coll.Klaus Paysan Reserve: $480.00

Large wooden bowl has damage to side and bottom. Missing one side and handle. 23 x 13 Carrier with leather strap looks to be homemade. 13 x 8 Soap stone has a few stains.

CONGO DRC Beautiful LUBA Bowl Bearer Visibly old, this "mboko" is typical of the Eastern Luba The famous “Cup bearers” of the Luba are sacralized sculptures, representing a seated, kneeling (o

A monumental and ancient carved wooden Offering shrine or bowl featuring a female Figure, Yoruba peoples, Igbomina region, Nigeria, Late 19th to mid-20th century, Wood, paint.This is a bowl carrier or

A very finely carved wood female effigy designed to forecast future events, this bowl bearer—known as a mboko (the name for the sacred vessel held by the figure) was carved from a single piece of

Luba Offering Bowl, ca. 1930's, wood bowl with two figures holding bowl. Lid has two carved lizards on top. Dimensions: 12" w x 7-1/4" H; Weight: 4 lbs. 8 oz. Provenance: Ex. Private collection, NYC

A finely carved wooden female "Mboko" or Bowl bearer sculpture of kneeling female. Congo, Africa. The sculpture measures 8.75 inches

A Carved wooden female Designed to forecast future events, this bowl bearer—known as a mboko (the name for the sacred vessel held by the figure) Luba peoples, Congo, Africa. The sculpture measures 1

Made from carved wood and leather. Retains original feather fetish. 11 1/2'' tall

Carved wooden female shown with bowl atop her head and with highly stylized face and form. Mboko are traditionally used as divination tools and mediums to the spirit world.Luba peoples, Congo, Africa.

Carved Luba Mboko Bowl Bearer Sculpture, from the Luba territory depicting bowl bearer known as mboko named for the sacred vessel held by figure; used condition wear/worn, nicks, chips, surface distre

A Very finely carved wooden female Bowl bearer sculpture with elaborate headdress and well polished patina. Luba peoples, Congo, Africa. The figure measures 9 x 4.5 inches. ( 10.5 inches on custom bas

Fiesta 9" gray plate with metal handle and 4 3/4" rose fruit bowl with carrier

20th Century Nigeria African Yoruba Divination bowl, Luba stool. Crafted from a solid piece of wood, features a kneeling female figure with large hands holding up the bowl. Accompanied with photocopy

Black surface, keloids all over her body, unmarked face, she sits holding a lidded vessel carved with designs mimicking her scarification. Such figures were used as oracles and served in divination.Di

A Luba style figural bowl. DRC. c. 20th century Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson.

This is a very fine and vintage Diviner's sculpture from the Luba peoples of the Congo, Africa. Carved from a single piece of very heavy and dense wood with a well handled and weathered surface patina

Carved wooden Divination vessel with two females shown supporting bowl atop their head and with highly stylized form and intricate incised designs. Mboko are traditionally used as divination tools and

Carved wooden bowl, 5"h. Oak bentwood cutlery carrier, one side is lidded and copper tack construction, 6.75"h. Hinge lidded basket, 10.5"h. Small buttocks basket, 6"h. Basket missing lid, 10.5"h.

saucers, sugar bowl, all on carrier

AN AFRICAN CARVED FIGURAL FERTILITY STOOL, 20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, POSSIBLY LUBA/BALUBA, a bowl seat over the triple crested hair of a male and female figure kneeling

Unusual stack of (23) 8 1/2" bowls in original carrier.

Primitive lot including (2) tool carriers, wooden bowl, and sieve.

A fine carved wooden divination bowl bearer female couple or Mboko, with two finely carved females shown seated across from one another and holding the diviners bowl. The two females both have serene