{"product_id":"luba-standing-female-figure-drc-african-wood-sculpture-congo-tribal-statue","title":"Luba Standing Female Figure DRC | African Wood Sculpture | Congo Tribal Statue","description":"\u003cp\u003eBring home a work of quiet, commanding elegance from one of Central Africa's most celebrated sculptural traditions — this Luba standing female figure from the Democratic Republic of Congo is a masterpiece of proportion, restraint, and spiritual presence.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhere many African figurative traditions favor surface elaboration — beads, pigment, geometric patterning — the finest Luba standing figures achieve their power through pure form. This figure is a testament to that philosophy. The extraordinary elongated neck — among the most pronounced in the Luba standing figure tradition — is not anatomical exaggeration but a deliberate statement of Luba aesthetic values: buya, feminine grace and beauty expressed through elegant proportion. Among the Luba people, a long neck was the primary visual marker of nobility, refinement, and inner virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe face carries the serene downcast gaze of iwa — gentle character, the quality Luba culture placed above all others in its ideals of personhood. The smooth rounded bun coiffure, the arms hanging in composed self-containment with hands meeting at the lower abdomen, the protruding navel boss with its small diamond scarification above — every detail is considered, purposeful, and executed with a carver's complete confidence.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe deeply open negative space carved between the arms and torso is a mark of a master hand — a technically demanding choice that gives the figure an extraordinary lightness and three-dimensionality despite the density of the wood.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe deep ebony-black mirror patina speaks of exceptional age and long ceremonial handling — this figure has been touched, held, and venerated across generations.\u003cbr\u003e\nDetails:\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial: Hand-Carved Natural Wood\u003cbr\u003e\nSize: 20 x 6 x 7 inches\u003cbr\u003e\nOrigin: Democratic Republic of Congo (Luba People)\u003cbr\u003e\nDue to the age and ceremonially used nature of this piece, it carries a unique deep patina and surface character — making it entirely one of a kind and irreplaceable.\u003cbr\u003e\nBring home more than sculpture — bring home a piece of living grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"kivuhome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833114865883,"sku":null,"price":307.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/1951\/3051\/files\/il_fullxfull.8074516646_rkd5.jpg?v=1780386793","url":"https:\/\/kivuhome.com\/ki\/products\/luba-standing-female-figure-drc-african-wood-sculpture-congo-tribal-statue","provider":"kivuhome","version":"1.0","type":"link"}