Antique Wooden Tribal Luba Hand Carved African Headrest Figures Congo, Africa

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Antique Wooden Tribal Luba Hand Carved African Headrest Figures Congo, Africa:
$13.38

Baluba-Shankadi tribe sculpture wood headrest, with a rider on a long horned antelope.
Hand carved from a single piece of wood. The Baluba people believed that their ancestors could communicate with them through dreams, thus headrests were sometimes called ‘seats of dreams’. Headrests were also used to preserve elaborate hairstyles, which were traditional among the Baluba people. The majority of Baluba art was made for kings and chiefs and as such the headrests were prized possessions of this group as it was personal to them, so much so that upon their deaths the headrests would sometimes be buried with them. This headrest has a rich patina and displays signs of usage, which does not detract from that fact that it a beautifully crafted piece of Baluba art.Dimensions : 18 Height cm X 19 cm Width X 8 cm Depth