A Luba Adze

A Fine Old carved wooden adze or axe handle with lovely female ancestor face on the handle, and long steel blade inserted. Note the incised village images along the handle edges, along with a deep wel

Axt Luba, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Holz, Eisen. H 27 cm. Provenienz: Helmut (1931-2021) und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. Zeremonialwaffen zeichnen sich durch sorgfältige Herstellung u

Axt (Szepter), "kibiki" Luba, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Eisen, Holz. L 40 cm. Provenienz: Helmut und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. Zeremonialwaffen zeichnen sich durch sorgfältige Herstellung u

Axt (Szepter), "kibiki" Luba, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Holz, Eisen, Polsternägel. H 37 cm. Provenienz: Helmut und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. Zeremonialwaffen zeichnen sich durch sorgfältig

Axt (Szepter), "kibiki" Luba, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Holz, Eisen. H 38,5 cm. Provenienz: Helmut und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. Zeremonialwaffen zeichnen sich durch sorgfältige Herstellung

Ca. first half 20thC. Songye/Luba tribal African ceremonial axe and smaller axe, wood, metal; Democratic Republic of Congo. Good, with age-appropriate wear, and age-cracks. Ex-Nooter coll.

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

CONGO DRC Miniature LUBA female cultual figure 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

Stab, "kibango" Luba, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Holz. H 178 cm. Provenienz: - Musée missionnaire des Orphelins, Auteuil. - Abbaye Blanche, Mortain. - Galerie Künzi, Gottfried Künzi (1920-

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

LUBA, CONGO, AFRICAN WOOD STOOL H 10" D 7" On a wood and black pedestal measuring an overall height of 11". Provenance: Estate of Jack Faxon, Michigan Senator, and creator of the Michigan Council for

wood, blackish brown patina, original repairs The stool shows two female and one male, respectively hermaphrodite caryatid figure with beard. The Songye share with the neighbouring Luba the same mythi

A Carved wooden round mask with incised linear designs and accented with mineral pigments. Luba peoples, Kifwebe society, DRC / Congo, central Africa. The mask measures 15 x 12 inches ( 21 inches tall

Polynesian Austral Island Ceremonial Adze, Mid-19th Century. Large stone blade, Finely carved wood shaft, blade attached with sinnit (coconut string) bindings. On metal mount. Formerly from the collec

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

Title: LUBA superb cariatid stool seat figure statue Congo African Tribal Art 1331 Additional Information: CONGO DRC Superb LUBA caryatid stool This superb stool presents a very particular architectur

wood, kaolin, H: 33,5 cm, H: 13,2 inch Provenance: Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany Continent: Africa

wood, rich brown to blackish brown patina, a long-legged animal as cariatid figure for a slightly vaulted pillow, rising from massive rectangular base, slightly dam., abrasion of paint H: 14 cm; B: 12

Cook Islands Ceremonial Hafted Adze, Mangaia, 19th century, squared shaft with geometric relief carving, the black basalt blade bound with sennit fiber and shark skin, lg. 40 3/4 in. Provenance: Priva

Luba "Kibango" Staff with Seated Female, fine incised linear designs and brass wrappings. Congo/Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. Size: 49'' x 4'' x 1'' (124 x 10 x 3 cm). Provenance: The Estate o

A Luba Stool with Maternity Figure Democratic Republic of Congo, late 19th to early 20th century Hardwood blackened all over. The female sits with legs folded back, her rotund torso

D.R. Congo Late 19th c. Wood, 37 cm Provenance: Edouard d'Orjo de Marchevette (acquired in situ in 1925) By descent Didier Claes, Brussels Exhibited: Art traditionnel: Exposition universelle et intern

Zeremonila-Axt (Szepter) Songye, Nsapo, DR Kongo Ohne Sockel / without base Eisen, Holz, Kupfer. L 47 cm. Provenienz: Helmut und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. Zeremonialwaffen zeichnen sich durch sorgfäl

North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, Pre-Contact Period, ca. 14th to 18th century CE. A sizable and hefty adze (adz) blade of an elongated trapezoidal form made to be used for cutting, carving, and smooth