A Very Rare Old Luba Divination Idol, African Art - $5,000 - (Brigantine, NJ)
A very old carved wooden "Nkishi" sculpture from the Luba peoples of the Congo, Africa. Measures 20 inches tall ( 21.5 inches on professional custom display stand) Please note the deeply patinated surface , especially on the neck , evidence of years of traditional ritual use. This is an early 20th century example of a NKISHI , a ceremonial fetish at the center of a possession and divination cult that was called upon for solving individual as well as collective ailments. Such objects were so central to the divination practice that aspiring trance diviners would have to either commission or inherit the objects required by their particular spirit before they could begin to practice. Diviners and healers use an array of nkishi (sculpted human figures) for particular problems and purposes: some provide general protection; some catch thieves; others help retrieve lost articles. The Diviner would entice a spirit to inhabit the figure and endows it with extraordinary powers, so that it can assist the diviner in his or her attempts to change the world for the better. The finest example of Luba Art I have had the pleasure to offer in the last 27 years in the business. My name is Todd Zieseniss and I have been selling African, Asian and Pre-columbian Tribal Arts for nearly 25 years. I opened my first gallery "Tribal Gatherings" in 1994 and I have sold well over 20,000 works of Ethnographic arts in this time. I was one of the original sellers of Tribal Art on Ebay when it first started under the Ebay name "brightpath" and then I opened a second selling sight "Tribal gatherings" a few years later, which I still maintain. I have worked in authentication and appraisals for Rago auctions and other major auction houses in the Philadelphia region. I have contacts worldwide for Ethnographic arts and I am happy to help you build your collection. I have a large inventory of Art objects, you will only ever see a small portion on ebay. I sell decorative objects to Museum grade treasure…
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