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A FINE AND RARE LUBA CEREMONIAL BOW REST, a female figure carved below the triple support, standing with the hands placed above the breasts, scarification about the navel, with cruciform coiffure, a white glass bead necklace with one red bead, short tapered shaft with iron spike, two of the rests with engraved hatched panels, the third a restoration, dark glossy patina

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A FINE AND RARE LUBA CEREMONIAL BOW REST, a female figure carved below the triple support, standing with the hands placed above the breasts, scarification about the navel, with cruciform coiffure, a white glass bead necklace with one red bead, short tapered shaft with iron spike, two of the rests with engraved hatched panels, the third a restoration, dark glossy patina
77cm. high

拍品專文

Bow rests play a similar, but more significant, role to the staffs distributed by the Luba king to titleholders and territorial chiefs, bilolo, and are therefore more rare. Nooter (1992, no.173) illustrates a similar bow rest purchased by the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, from Leo Frobenius in 1904