Statue - Cut - Luba - DR Congo (No Reserve Price)

Divinatory instruments in Luba African art
This figurine features a hemispherical vessel, a mboko cup, a calabash filled with kaolin, symbolizing purity and the spiritual world. These vessels were used by different societies.
Luba, and groups of prophets, more generally through the mediums of the divination society Kilumbu, Bilumbu, or through healers of the Buhabo society.
The Mbudye diviners also resorted to this. It involved, individually or collectively, consulting the spirits of ancestors through specialists.