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LUBA female figure statue sculpture Congo African Tribal Art 1701

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LUBA female figure statue sculpture Congo African Tribal Art 1701

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Description

CONGO DRC
LUBA female figure
Typical of the Eastern Luba
The arms and torso are surprisingly long, and his sulky pout is irresistible.
A statue with very similar architecture is published in Bacquart, page 159, presented as Upemba-style
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: Statue, figure
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 13 1/4 inches high (33.5 cm)
CONDITION: Correct
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
- The Tribal Arts of Africa, Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, Thames and Hudson, 1998

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