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Headrest Luba / Zela, Zula - DRC Congo - African Art

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Headrest Luba / Zela, Zula - DRC Congo - African Art

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Title: Headrest Luba / Zela, Zula - DRC Congo - African Art Tribal Art

Provenance/Additional Info: The Luba are famous in particular for their neck rests and stools made of a caryatid figure. The neck rests protecting the headdresses during the night were also used to support the heads of the deceased, and sometimes, according to Albert Maesen, buried in their place. A female figure crouching with legs widely apart (Zula style), supporting the curved support, forms the "receptacle of a deceased sovereign chief" (Luba, Roberts). The effigy embodies the spirit of an ancestor, vidiye and is topped with braids pulled backwards. Locally abraded oiled patina, orange reflections, residual ochre incrustations. The Luba (Baluba in Tchiluba) are a people of Central Africa. Their cradle is Katanga, more precisely the region of the Lubu river, hence the name (Baluba, which means "the Lubas"). They were born from a secession of the Songhoy ethnic group, under the leadership of Ilunga Kalala, who had the old king Kongolo, venerated since then in the form of a python, die. In the 16th century they created a state, organized in decentralized chieftaincy, which extended from the Kasai River to Lake Tanganyika. The chiefdoms cover a small territory without real border that includes at most three villages. Source : "Luba" F. Neyt

Item Category: Neck rest, neck support, headrest

Date/Period: Second half 20th century

Origin: DRC, Congo

Materials: Wood

Height:6,30 Inch

Weight: 0,66 Pounds

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