Kuba Lele Mask SOLD
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A Kuba Lele mask Material: Wood, white pigments, Shoowa textile, cowries,
vegetable fibers. Provenance: Belgian colonial |
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In
the south-west of the Kuba kingdom, the Lele kingdom occupy the region between the
Loange and Kasai rivers. Although not a part of the cultural complex of the Kuba,
the Lele have been significantly influenced by Kuba art.
It is a small sub-tribe of the Kuba, the population is around 30,000 people.
This a quite rare mask. The Wongo and Lele originally came from "the north" with the Kuba, subsequently settling and resettling in small villages along and between the Loange and Kasai Rivers often having to relocate in the area due to the intrusions of the Pende and later the Tchokwe peoples. It is, therefore, to be expected that there are similarities in artistry and object types among the peoples of the lower Kasai.
related books:
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Shoowa
Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba Author: Georges Meurant; Buy New: $60.00 |
The
Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples
Author: Jan Vansina; Buy New: $35.00
Douglas, Mary. (1963) The Lele of the Kasai. Oxford, For the International African Institute, Oxford U.P.
Klein, H. (1987) Leo Frobenius: Ethnographische Notizen Aus Den Jahren 1905 und 1906 — II: Kuba, Lele, Nord-Kete. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH.
Price of the Kuba Lele mask: sold
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3 227.35.40, 