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Luba DRC Tribal Gourd Calabash Pipe with Copper wrapping
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Luba DRC Tribal Gourd Calabash Pipe with Copper wrapping
A UNIQUE LUBA TRIBAL GOURD CALABASH PIPE. MADE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, USING A CARVED GOURD AND INTRICATE COPPER WRAPPING. IT IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL BUT ALSO BEAUTIFUL.
MID- 20TH CENTURY ITEM PASSED DOWN IN ONE OF THE LUBA FAMILIES. IT WAS MADE FOR USE, NOT JUST DECOR.
SIZE: 19CM LONG 7CM DIAMETER BULB
CONDITION: IN GOOD CONDITION.
NOTE I HAVE VARIOUS INTERSTING AFRICAN ARTIFACTS ON AUCTION THIS WEEK. STRANGE WOODEN CARVED BOWLS AND GOURDS TO OLD AFRICAN POTTERY LAMPS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
LUBA PEOPLE OF TE DRC:
The Luba Empire was one of the most-renowned African states. Archaeologists have shown that the area where the heart of the empire was situated, east of the Kasai River around the headwaters of the Lualaba River (hence the name Luba people) was likely inhabited by the 5th century CE, with the beginnings of the empire emerging by the 14th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries, most of the Luba were ruled by a paramount chief. The Luba empire was fragmented by Belgian colonization between 1880 and 1960, and the breakdown of the empire resulted in the development either of smaller chiefdoms.
The Luba are savanna and forest dwellers who practice hunting, food gathering, and agriculture (cassava, maize), keep small livestock, and live in villages of a single street, with rectangular thatched-roof huts along either side. They fish the Congo River and its main tributaries intensively. Luba practice circumcision and womens initiation; they have associations for hunting, magic, and medicine. They are renowned wood-carvers and they are especially known for their carvings of anthropomorphic figures (animals having human characteristics), ceremonial axes, and headrests.
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