Luba Stool
For more than a thousand years the Luba have occupied the southeastern corner of the Congo. Most Luba art relates to kings and their subordinate chiefs, who defined their power by using carved prestige objects in their investiture ceremonies - stools being among the most important of such objects.
The ruler is considered to be supported literally and figuratively by a female caryatid figure; although the present-day Luba trace their descent through the male line, there is evidence that they were formerly a matrilineal. The depictions of these female attributes reference the founding female ancestor
For more than a thousand years the Luba have occupied the southeastern corner of the Congo. Most Luba art relates to kings and their subordinate chiefs, who defined their power by using carved prestige objects in their investiture ceremonies - stools being among the most important of such objects.
The ruler is considered to be supported literally and figuratively by a female caryatid figure; although the present-day Luba trace their descent through the male line, there is evidence that they were formerly a matrilineal. The depictions of these female attributes reference the founding female ancestor
For more than a thousand years the Luba have occupied the southeastern corner of the Congo. Most Luba art relates to kings and their subordinate chiefs, who defined their power by using carved prestige objects in their investiture ceremonies - stools being among the most important of such objects.
The ruler is considered to be supported literally and figuratively by a female caryatid figure; although the present-day Luba trace their descent through the male line, there is evidence that they were formerly a matrilineal. The depictions of these female attributes reference the founding female ancestor
Tribe: Luba
Country: Congo
Age: >100
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