Oracle à friction "kashekesheke" ·  R. D. Congo, Luba · ID: 3050128

Description

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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.

Littérature comparée

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