Fine Kuba Dance Anklet – DR Congo

Raffia Vinifera fibers, cowries shells, glass beads grams 122,0 (4.13 oz.); cm. 6,0 high, cm. 19,0 width (2.36″ x 7.48″). Perfect conditions.

Kuba, also called Bakuba, a cluster of about 16 Bantu-speaking groups in southeastern Congo, living between the Kasai and Sankuru rivers east of their confluence.

The groups are divided into lineages related through matrilineal descent; the lineages are segments of numerous dispersed clans.

Nature spirits and the spirits of dead kings dominate Kuba religion.

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