The Luba are renowned for their statuary and in particular their neckrests and stools made up of a caryatid figure or couple embodying spirits. Neckrests were also used to support the heads of the deceased, and sometimes, according to Albert Maesen, buried in their place. Turning their backs, the figures of spouses are squatting, their heads supporting the tray. Brown abraded, satin patina. Crack at the top. The Luba (Baluba in Chiluba) are a people of Central Africa. Their cradle is Katanga, more precisely the region of the Lubu River, hence the name (Baluba “the Lubas”). 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 with no real border which includes at most three villages. Source: "Luba" F. Neyt
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