Among the Luluwa, Lulua, or even Béna Lulua, various types of African statues with multiple scarifications glorify local chiefs, motherhood, fertility and the female figure. This African sculpture depends on the Buanga bua cibola cult of the Lulua in order to protect children and the pregnant woman. The subject has an umbilical hernia, the abdomen being the center of the body and "object of all solicitude" (The power of the sacred, M. Faïk-Nzuji ) Light brown patina. Desication cracks and erosions. 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 caste, is similar to that of the Luba. They produced few masks, but mostly statuettes of ancestors representing the ideal warrior, mulalenga wa nkashaama, as well as the leader of the Leopard society and statuettes mbulenga related to the spirits of nature.
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