Female Figure - Luba People - D.R. Congo

Price: $595.00


 


Figures such as these are owned by chiefs and diviners. The female figure represents the diviner's spirit wife and underscores the role of the diviner's actual wife as an intermediary in spirit invocation and as having oracular powers. These figures reinforce the notion of women as spirit containers in both art and life.

27.5"H x 7.5"W x 7.5"D