Female half figure

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Description

wood, rest. in two places

Half-figure with beautiful facial features, made of particularly light wood, probably an early work. The figure was possibly originally attached to a calabash, as used in initiation rites of the “bugabo” society, an association dedicated to hunting, healing and fighting crime.

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Comparing literature

Roberts, Mary Nooter & Allan F. Roberts, Memory, Luba Art and the Making of History, New York 1996, p. 204, ill. 88

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