Kneeling bowl bearer "mboko" · R. D. Congo, Luba · ID: 3035713
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
Description
light brown wood, slightly shiny blackish brown patina, marked by extreme overlong trunk and limbs and unusual proportions, lozenge scarification marks, rep. (breakages at both thighs and wrists), small missing parts, traces of abrasion;
one of the Shankadi substyles! A comparable work of the same artist is published by C. Petridis, 2008, ill. 36.
The functions of bowl bearers differs throughout the Luba region, but they always seem to have a close link to divination and healing. When a chief takes office the first wife hands him a sacred calabash with white earth (kaolin), a symbol of power. They are also considered to be the abode of the spirits who should help the diviner to heal the patient.
L’objet Kneeling bowl bearer “mboko” avec l’ID d’objet 3035713 a fait partie de l’enchère 75th tribal art auction en 30 novembre 2013 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 133.
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Littérature comparée
Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 56, ill. 36 (see also GVR Archives Registration: 0002870~02)