Lot 262: A Luba staff-top

A Luba staff-top, Luba; D.R. Congo

The upper portion of a prestige staff; the finial an old brass bullet shell above alternating bands of aluminum and copper stips, the central portion with large head in blond wood with rounded features and high brow, an age crack to the face, the remainder with alternating aluminum and copper. H. 17"

Comments:
Property from a New York Estate

Provenance:
Alfred Schienberg, 1971, The Gallery of African Art. NY

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