Description : Divination basket ngombo ya cisuka Chokwe, D. R. Kongo a woven basket containing numerous carved figurines, animal parts, bone fragments, a small calabash and vegetal material, min. dam., slight signs of abrasion, the most ambitious and highly regarded diviners in Chokwe society strive to attain omniscience by constantly mining the world around them, seeking the ingredients necessary to create a microcosm of the universe. Housed within a woven basketry structure, this chaotic jumble of seemingly eclectic debris is continually reconfigured in visual combinations that yield insight into the human condition. D: 30 cm, (5028/014) Provenance Coll. Werner Fischer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Literature LaGamma, Alisa, Art and Oracle, African Art and Rituals of Divination, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York 2000, p. 47, ill, 23
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