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Luba arrow rest, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20th century.

Auction Lot 243 (35416532)
Luba arrow rest, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20th century.
Wood.
It has cracks in the front area, slight breaks and restorations.
Provenance: Carel van Lier (1897 - 1945) before 1927, Former collection of Jan Sluijters (1881 - 1957).
Measurements: 49 cm (height).

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Estimated Value : 1,800 - 2,000 €
Live auction: 14 Nov 2024 12:00
Live auction: 14 Nov 2024 12:00
Remaining time: 12 days 23:23:21
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Luba arrow rest, Democratic Republic of Congo, 20th century.
Wood.
Cracks in the front area, slight breaks and restorations.
Provenance: Carel van Lier (1897 - 1945) before 1927, Former collection of Jan Sluijters (1881 - 1957).
Measurements: 49 cm (height).
Standing female figure, hands resting on her belly, with tripod-like headdress. Originally used to hold a bow and arrow. Later it became a symbol of power.
This is a ceremonial figure of the Luba Ethnicity, the Luba are a people of the Bantu linguistic family, inhabiting the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the middle of the 16th century they constituted a feudal kingdom whose court developed a singularly refined art, which has survived to the present day: figures for ancestor worship, masks, stools supported by caryatids (kneeling women), goblets, etc. The Luba Empire was characterized by the existence of a central authority, called mulopwe (king), who, copying from the European colonizers, took on a sacred character.
Their religion was traditionally based on ancestor worship, but with the arrival of the Belgians and their political domination, a large part of the Luba converted to Christianity.

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