Luba Female Power Half Figure (Kakudji) vikingage while married women wore fibre

while married women wore fibre coil skirts (yokal) or elaborate seed skirts

Six major kiln groups flourished during this period

combined with its functional and symbolic role

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where human figures were crafted with elegant simplicity and often featured elongated or abstracted forms

Luba Female Power Half Figure (Kakudji) vikingage while married women wore fibreLuba people, early to mid 20th century, possibly Lukuga River Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo Magnificent and rare kakudji female power half figure, superbly carved from a single piece of dense hardwood. The figure stands upright in a posture of composed spiritual authority, her sensitively rendered features including a short, close cropped coiffure above large almond shaped eyes, a short flattened nose, and an oval raised mouth with full