This African mask topped with a frontal crest offers the motifs associated with the group's scarifications. According to Rik Ceyssens in "Congo Masks" (p.156. ed. M.L.Félix) and as attested by the sketches of H.M.Lemme who accompanied Frobenius during his travels in the Congo, this model of loop scarifications was then widespread in different sub-regions. -Luluwa groups in 1905. The Bakwa also displayed this type of tribal scars. This type of mask is used during circumcision rites and at the funerals of notables. Matte polychrome patina. Desiccation cracks. It is in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo that the Lulua, or Béna Lulua, from West Africa, settled . Their social structure, based on castes, is similar to that of the Luba. They produced few masks, but mainly statues of ancestors representing the ideal warrior, mulalenga wa nkashaama, as well as the leader of the Leopard society and mbulenga statuettes. linked to the spirits of nature. Despite Kalamba Mukwenge's attempt, at the end of the 19th century, to eradicate traditional cults by resorting to book burnings, the religious system was maintained, such as the tshibola fertility cult. (Tribal art of black Africa. JB Bacquart; “Umbangu, Art of the Congo at the Royal Belgian Cogo Museum” ed. Cultura.)
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