Divination basket "mboko" · D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3047113
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Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, GermanySize
D: ca. 9 cm
D: ca. 3.5 inch
Description
plant fibre, sticky sacrificial patina (figure),
These small baskets are an essential part of the equipment of a fortune teller “bilumbu” that are used for divination.
Besides objects from nature (bird beak, cowry shell, fur, wood) they always contain man-made objects (iron chain, glass ornament).
The object Divination basket “mboko” with the object ID 3047113 was last part of the auction 95th Tribal Art Auction at October 24, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 276.
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Comparing literature
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, Luba Art and the Making of History, New York 1996, p. 195