CONGO DRC Beautiful LUBA Shankadi caryatid stool KIPONA Very nice seat of the central Luba People, recognizable by the famous cascading hairstyle, popular by the Shankadi Two specificities in this work, the beauty of the woman's face, and the squatting position, really rare, the caryatids being generally, either standing, seated or kneeling We can also see very similar scarifications on the flanks of the woman on the stool of the Lisbon museum illustrated in Luba, Neyt, 1993, p81 Seat attributed to a workshop in Malemba Nkulu, in the Upemba area We find this position on a stool sold in 2018 at Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria And we can see an almost identical face on the photo of a Shankadi seat from a Sungu workshop, near Kamina (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland in 1979 We can see also similar scarifications on the stool Stools are the most important symbols of political power 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: Stool seat tabouret ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba ORIGINE: Congo Drc MATERIAL: Wood DIMENSIONS: About 18 1/4 inches high CONDITION: Bad It seems that the stool has been waxed Please have a look on the pictures BIBLIOGRAPHY : - LUBA, aux sources du Zaire, François NEYT, Editions du Musee Dapper, 1993. - MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996 - Cariatides Luba Hemba, pour une histoire de l'art des sièges à cariatides des styles Luba et Lubaisés, Bernard de Grunne, catalogue d'exposition Parcours des Mondes, Paris, 2017 - Atlantes et Caryatides.Trônes d'Afrique Noire, Galerie Ratton - Hourdé, 2004

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