Kifwebe mask. Eastern Luba. Shaba, Zaïre.
Wood, fibre, pigments.
© Africa-Museum, Tervuren
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Luba bifwebe masks are similar in
style to those of the Songye and are also worn in the context of an
initiation society of the same name. But a series of symbolic variants and
inversions relate them more to beneficial magic than to witchcraft.
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