English description below
CONGO DRC
LUBA - Rare Large Kifwebe mask
A large label inside
Village: MUKUNA? (almost illegible)
Chiefdom: ? (illegible)
Territory: ? (illegible)
Like their Songye neighbors, the Luba created these highly recognizable and sought-after striated masks.
The Luba are a large people of eastern DRC. Their caryatid seats, cup holders, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and ancestor statues are very famous and among the most prized objects in African Art.
PROVENANCE: Patric Claes
Patric Claes is a Belgian African Art dealer, located in Brussels. He is a specialist in traditional Congolese arts.
Participating in the last Cultures Bruneaf in 2019 at Sablon, Brussels, he also organized an exhibition of Mbangu Pende Masks (disease masks) in 2017
Features:
OBJECT TYPE: Mask
ETHNIC GROUP: Luba - Baluba
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Congo DRC
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: Height: 49 cm
CONDITION: Fair - poor
Large slit (see last photo)
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Bibliography - Bibliography
- LUBA, at the sources of Zaire, François NEYT, Editions du Musée Dapper, 1993.
- LUBA, Visions of Africa, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, 2006
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996
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CONGO DRC
LUBA
Rare Kifwebe Large Mask
Like their neighbors Songye, the Luba created these highly recognizable and sought-after striated masks
There is a sticker inside
Village: MUKUNA? (but a little unreadable)
Chiefdom: ? (unreadable)
Territory: ? (unreadable)
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.
PROVENANCE: Patric Claes
Patric Claes is a Belgian dealer of African Art in Brussels
He's a specialist for the Congo traditional Arts
Exhibition in Cultures Bruneaf Brussels in 2019
He also made an exhibition of MBANGU PENDE (sickness Pende masks) in 2017.
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba
ORIGIN: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: about 19 1/4 Inches high.
CONDITION: Medium - Bad
Large crackle (last picture)
Please have a look on the pictures.
