Staff of office "kibango"

D. R. Congo, Luba

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
	H: 54.7 inch	This object is not available anymore.

wood, base

This staffs function as mnemonic text, their forms and designs constituting sculpted narratives. They encode information about lineage history, which may be read as texts.

Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 162 ff.

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