BY KILOKO

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A FINE LUBA SHANKADI HEADREST
By Kiloko
The support carved as a kneeling female figure with the arms raised to support the curved top, lozenge panels of keloids to the chest and abdomen, vertical double band of keloids to the forehead, incised ridged coiffure, the eyes and mouth as raised ovals with horizontal slits, diagonal cross-hatched panels about the rim of the rectangular base, hatched panels to each end of the top, dark glossy patina
14.5cm. high

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Lot Essay

Cf. Pierre de Maret, Nicole Dery and Cathy Murdoch, 'The Luba Shankadi Style', in African Arts, Vol.VII, number 1, Autumn 1973, where they illustrate on the cover of the magazine a very similar headrest now in the Afrika Museum, Tervuren, by the same hand. Kiloko worked in the village of Busangu, about seventy kilometres from Kamina. Four works were acquired from him by S. Peeraer circa 1936.

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