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Friction oracle "kashekesheke" ·  D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3050128

sold EUR 3,000
Provenance
Charles Courtin (✝ 1954), Antwerp, Belgium
Size
H: 6,8 cm
H: 2.7 inch

Description

wood,

During a consultation, client and diviner together hold the sculpture, which responds to their questions with coded movements.

“Kashekesheke” is one of the oldest Luba forms of divination, a technique to reconstruct memories and personal histories for purposes of problem-solving.


The object Friction oracle “kashekesheke” with the object ID 3050128 was part of the auction 101st Auction on November 11, 2023. The object with the lot number 315 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000 with an asking price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Mary Nooter Roberts & Allen F. Roberts, Memory, Luba Art and the Making of History, New York 1996, p. 183


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