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The stool was reserved for the most powerful individuals in a community. Only a king or chief would have owned a stool like this one. Such objects did not always serve a practical function as seating but were deeply invested with symbolic significance.

Culture and Traditions

Early in the seventeenth century, the Luba people had established a powerful empire in the southeast of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kuba, also called Bakuba, is a cluster of about 16 Bantu-speaking groups in southeastern Congo (Kinshasa), living between the Kasai and Sankuru rivers east of their confluence.

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Kenneth T. Ward donated in the year 1991.

Date of Digitization

7/21/2022

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J. B . Coleman Library

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