Reclineheads

Luba stools are made up of one or two cariatids. Inappropriately called cariatides, for the “charyatide” comes from the name of the stone statues dressed in a long tunic that constituted the columns of the Baldaquin of the Erecteion of the Athenian Acropolis, temple in honor of Poseidon, Erecteo and Athena. In reality, “chariátide” is the native of Caryes, city of Laconia.

The Luba have been characterized by a refined art of what their supported stools bear witness to.caryatides, located face to face, whose headdresses reproduce the hairstyles of the Luba woman. The woman, as a receptacle of the spirits, must be shown in the most beautiful way possible. The women who support the seat of the stool are adorned with beautiful hairstyles in the form of a waterfall, a cross or apepinados. They're boss seats and they're not meant to sit in them. They are symbols of dignity. They are part of the royalties and their use is reserved for ceremonies. Your custody is entrusted to the boss's wife.

This stool represents a woman on an antelope, by the shape of her horns, which serves as a mount. This is without doubt a stylization of the hypothragus, antelope horse or sabre that the natives call Koba, of elongated body and without tail. A support that part of the antelope serves as a handle for the rider and serves as a stand for the seat of the head. The measurements of the figure do not respond to any criteria, arms inordinately long, legs reaching the floor and huge head. The antelope shows scarifications on the neck as well as a necklace of red ceramic beads. Two double-row necklaces, with the same type of beads, adorn the neck and waist of the character, with apepinated head and monkey in cone, typical of some baluba fifuras. Brown patina.