LULUWA
FIG. 16 (below):
Male (?) figure, bwanga bwa
Cibola. Attributed by
H. Kellim Brown to the village
of Mbumba.
Bakwa Ndoolo subgroup,
Luluwa, Democratic Republic of
the Congo.
Wood, pigment. H: 35 cm.
Reportedly field acquired by Dalir by 1930.
Ex Jo De Buck, Brussels, Belgium.
Felix Collection, Belgium.
Photo courtesy of the Congo Basin Art
History Research Center, Brussels.
The term Cibola is generally interpreted
as the name of the spirit, possession
by which lies at the root of a woman’s
difficulty to conceive.
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