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Showing 30 results for Luba or Hemba peoples

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Royal Seat (Lupona): Female Caryatid
Luba or Hemba peoples
19th century

Ladle
Luba or Hemba peoples
19th–20th century

Half Figure: Female
Luba or Hemba peoples
19th–20th century

Prestige Stool: Female Caryatid
Luba or Hemba peoples
19th–20th century

Royal Seat (Lupona): Female Caryatid
Luba artist
19th century (?)

Pendant: Female Half Figure
Luba peoples
19th–20th century

Memory Board (Lukasa)
Luba
19th–20th century

Community Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)
Songye peoples
19th–20th century

Commemorative figure
Hemba or Kusu peoples
19th–early 20th century

Vessel
Luba or Songye peoples
19th–20th century

Figure
Luba or Songye peoples
19th–20th century

Mask
Luba or Songye peoples
19th–20th century

Figure: Male
Kusu or northern Luba peoples

Female Mboko Bowl Bearer
Luba peoples, Middle Lukaga Workshop
19th century

Prestige Stool (Kipona)
Luba peoples, identified as the Master of the Warua or the Kunda
late 18th - early 19th century

Kneeling female figure with twin children and serpent
Dogon or Tellem peoples (?)
15th– 19th century

Seated Chief (Mwanangana) Playing Sanza
Chokwe artist
19th century (before 1869)

Figure: Male
Kusu peoples
19th–20th century

Helmet Mask (Hemba)
Suku peoples
19th–20th century

Figure: Seated Male
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Figure
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Tobacco Mortar: Crouching Figure
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Figure
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Figure: Male Holding Vessel
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Power Object: Head (Nkisi)
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Figure: Female (Bwanga bwa Bwimpe)
Luluwa peoples
19th–20th century

Ancestor Figure: Male
Boyo peoples
18th–19th century

Sachihongo Mask
Mbunda peoples
19th–early 20th century

[Seat (Profile), Belgian Congo]
Walker Evans
1935

Commemorative female figure

Chokwe artist

19th–early 20th century