Luba Kifwebe Nkisi Magical Hanging Basket. Use during as magical basket use in Kifwebe Society Height : 51x52cm Location: Democratic Republic of Congo Material : Wood , fibre Estimated age : Early 20th Century Provenance: Private Collection
Young Married woman’s clother , Beads and ornamental beadworks have played an important role in the lives of African people. They reflect group identity, age, gender, social status, fashionable desires and are a vehicle through which people store, exchange and transmit wealth. Nyangatom live on the border with South Sudan…
These large sculpture come from the Bongo people of southern Sudan , large sculpted funerary or memorial were placed above tombs , among the bongo large scuptures reconized and honore male elites , warrios , chiefs or locally significants personnages , carved head were at the best idealised representation of…