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Rare LUBA prestige's anthropomorphic figural Axe Congo African Tribal Art 1725

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Title: Rare LUBA prestige's anthropomorphic figural Axe Congo African Tribal Art 1725

Description: CONGO DRC
LUBA
RARE PRESTIGE AXE
Representative of the style of the Kabongo-Kisula Workshop (Neyt, 1993, page 113)
While most of the time Luba axes are cephalomorphic, here the body of the female character is complete
Kneeling, hands above chest, eyes surrounded by glass beads
Figurative axes and adzes are prestigious objects owned by those in power (kings, chiefs) as well as members of the Mbudye and mediums.
They are worn across the shoulder
Like other regalia, axes solidify alliances, settle debts, transfer political authority and close disputes (Roberts & Roberts, page 44)
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: Axe
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood. metal (copper)
DIMENSIONS: About 18 inches high (45.5 cm)
CONDITION: Medium
Please have a look on the pictures
The base is NOT included

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BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :
"Le kaolin sacré et les porteuses de coupe Luba, par Pierre Petit du CNRS, pages 97 -110
- 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 prestige's anthropomorphic figural Axe Congo African Tribal Art 1725

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