This is an old beautiful and elegant Tabwa sculpture, with a shinny brown patina carved from wood.
The Tabwa are an ethnic group located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika. Tabwa carvers produce many beautiful utilitarian objects such as combs, drums, and bellows, but also produced sculpted figures representing ancestors. The Tabwa sculptures played a function of consolidating the power of the chiefs. These figures were also prestige objects used for divination purposes and also represented the lineage chiefs and sorcerers among the tribes’ people.
- Material: Wood
- Condition: Good
- Age:55-70yrs
- Origin: Democratic Republic of Congo
- SKU: CSTA-044
- Weight: 0.5 kg
- Dimensions: 5.7 x 28.5 x 3 cm