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Hemba
The Hemba artistic tradition includes ancestral figures, spirits, human faces and ceremonial masks and included items such as stools, cup bearers, masks, drums and various ritual and divination objects. Other important sculpture work would be that of the So'o Masks.
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Buli Master, possibly Ngongo ya Chintu, Prestige Stool: Female Caryatid, 19th century, Luba or Hemba peoples, Buli village, Democratic Republic of the Congo, wood, metal studs, 61 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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