Friction oracle "kashekesheke" · D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3050128
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Charles Courtin (✝ 1954), Antwerp, BelgiumSize
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.
Comparing literature
Mary Nooter Roberts & Allen F. Roberts, Memory, Luba Art and the Making of History, New York 1996, p. 183