Type - African Bowl #106
Tribe - Luba Tribe
Country - Zambia Central Africa
Materials - Wood
Age - 10 - 15 yrs old
Condition - Used
Dimensions - Height 10.9" (28cm), Top
Diameter - 5.9" (15cm), Base Diameter 9" (23cm)

Price - USD $139.99

Location - Cape Town, South Africa

 
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A beautiful african bowl/container which is 10 - 15 years old, hand carved from a tree trunk. This Bowl is from the 'Luba' Tribe in Zambia. The bowl / container is used by the Luba tribe for making African beer. This piece is in very good condition for its age, there is a small surface crack as you can see from the photos and a few chips on the rim from previous use.

Any questions or for additional photos please email me. To save on shipping costs you are welcome to combine items form The Ebony Tree, please email sales@theebonytree.com for worldwide shipping costs. Unfortunately some of our items are expensive to ship due to there size & weight, we only charge what it costs to mail parcels from South Africa. All products from The Ebony Tree are spray treated for any parasites.

 

LUBA - Drc Congo / Zaire / Zambia

The 'Luba' tribe in Zambia / DRC Congo number 1 million people. The Luba are famous for their stools, divination bowls (mboko), face masks, carved bow stands and memory boards. The Luba people honor a supreme being and natural-spirits.

A significant feature of Luba culture was kibuta – divination. The Bilumbu were spirit mediums who would enter into a trance, gazing into mboko, within which ritual objects were put. The diviner would use the objects in the mboko as an predictor, reading the will of the spirits through the position of the objects in the bowl.

The history of the Luba tribe and its people is told by using a memory board. The memory board is made of beads and uses different colour beads for the different Tribes or people. Not everyone is told how to read or interpret the memory board though.

  
   

 
   
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