CONGO DRC

Rare & beautiful LUBA male figure

Wonderful haircut

As often, in Luba art, a piece that exudes great serenity

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  inches high (33 cm)
CONDITION: Correct
(see photos)

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