Sitting female bowl bearing figure "mboko" · D. R. Congo, Luba-Shankadi · ID: 3046840
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Provenance
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium (1994)Size
H: 17,8 cm
H: 7.0 inch
Description
wood, inventory number “FX 94241”, base
Luba bowl figures commemorate the first mythical Luba diviner, “Mijbu wa Kalenga”, and were primarily the preserve of royal diviners “bilumbu”, who used them as oracles.
The female figure can track down malevolent forces and act as a spy in the service of the diviner. Such figures are also reputed to have curative capacities.
The object Sitting female bowl bearing figure “mboko” with the object ID 3046840 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 223.
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