Staff of office "kibango" · D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3045465
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Size
H: 139 cm
H: 54.7 inch
Description
wood, base
This staffs function as mnemonic text, their forms and designs constituting sculpted narratives. They encode information about lineage history, which may be read as texts.
The object Staff of office “kibango” with the object ID 3045465 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 330.
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Comparing literature
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 162 ff.