Name: Luba Female Fetish Figure, Congo #511
Brand: Beads of Paradise
SKU: luba-statue-congo
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Luba Female Fetish Figure, Congo #511

$675.00

Luba Female Fetish Figure, Congo #511—

$675.00

Luba Female Fetish Figure, Congo #511—

$675.00

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Luba Female Fetish Figure, Congo #511

Date/Period: Second half 20th century

Materials: Wood, fabric

Dimensions: 10.24"

Note: Stand not included.

According to some Lubas, however, although a woman, she would represent the first Luba diviner, and would also be an allegory of royalty linked to the powerful Mbudye society associated with royal power. ("Luba" Roberts.) The Lubas (Baluba in Chiluba) are a people of Central Africa. Their cradle is Katanga, more precisely the region of the Lubu river, thus the name (Baluba, which means “the Lubas”). They were born from a secession of the Songhoy ethnic group, under the leadership of Ilunga Kalala who killed the old king Kongolo who has since been revered in the form of a python. In the 16th century they created a state, organized as a decentralized chiefdom, which stretched from the Kasai River to Lake Tanganyika. The chiefdoms cover a small territory without any real border which includes at most three villages.