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Luba Baluba Wooden Olifant sculpture Congo African

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Luba Baluba Wooden Olifant sculpture Congo African

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Description

CONGO DRC
LUBA OLIFANT
Rare anthropomorphic Luba oliphant.
The female character is embedded in a wooden horn, she has the ritual scarifications, the hands holding the chest. Beautiful headdress
Delicate sculpture with a very bright patina.
The Luba are a great people in eastern DRC.
Their caryatid seats, bearing cups, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and ancestral statues are very famous and among the most valued objects in African Art.
GOOD PROVENANCE: Patric Claes
Patric Claes is a Belgian dealer of African Art in Brussels
He's is a specialist for the Congo traditionnal Arts
Exhibition in Cultures Bruneaf Brussels in 2019
He made also an exhibition of MBANGU PENDE (sickness Pende masks) in 2017.
Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Olifant
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATÉRIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: about 12 1/2 Inches high.
about 15 Inches high with the base
CONDITION: Medium - Bad
Large crackles everywhere
Please have a look on the pictures.
But still a very good piece

Bibliography
- 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
- Art et Pouvoir dans la savane d'Afrique Centrale, Constantin Petridis, Fonds Mercator, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008
- Fleuve Congo, François NEYT, Musée du Quai Branly, Fonds Mercator, 2010, "La représentation féminine dans le royaume Luba", pages 354-386
- De l’objet au rêve, du rêve à l’objet. Panorama des artefacts et traditions oniriques dans la communauté Luba, Albert Constant-Piot, Tribal Art Magazine N°100, ETE 2021

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