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The bowls below have been sold and are left here for reference and educational purposes.
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
LUBA, OFFERING BOWLS, Dem. Rep. Congo
Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies. Traditionally, most of the couples are two freestanding figures, conceived as a unit, and posed frontally, symmetrically, in formal postures and of equal size.
Sculpted as stools and headrests, the male and female figures serve as symbolic supports, or here as handles when worked into the design of ritual offering bowls.
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