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 ..
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.
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 ..
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.
