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Memory board ("Lukasa")

19th century
19th C.
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Shaba Province
7 3/4 x 5 x 2 in. (19.69 x 12.7 x 5.08 cm)

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Artist unknown

Culture/People: Eastern Luba peoples

Medium: Wood, beads, nails, cowries

Credit Line: Gift of Marc and Ruth Franklin

Accession Number: 1997.126

Currently On View

Provenance

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, 1991; Marc and Ruth Franklin, San Francisco, CA (#9127)

Bibliography

See Reefe in African Arts, vol. 10, no. 1;
Nooter and Roberts, Memory: Luba Art and the Making of Hisatory, New York, 1996 (repr.);
Lindsey Rinder, “African Art at Stanford University” in “African Arts” vol. 32 (UCLA, Los Angeles, 1999), fig. 23, pg. 81, repr.;
Mary Nooter Roberts, “Locating History in a Labyrinth of Memory,” Cantor Arts Center Journal, III, 2002–2003, pp. 72–81, repr. pp. 72, 77;
Sally Sumida, "Household Appliances: Two Contemporary Assemblages by Willie Cole," Cantor Arts Center Journal, IV, 2004-2005, pp. 44-55, repr. p. 48;
Included in the Google Art Project website starting on 4/3/2013;
George Philip LeBourdais, "Arboreal Architecture: A Visual History of Trees," Cantor Arts Center, exhibition related publication (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts, Stanford, 2015). Fig. 6, pg. 8, repr.;

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knowledge

memory
The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and recalling facts, events, impressions, or recognizing previous experience. [March 1995 descriptor added.]

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Luba
Use to describe works produced by the African ethnic group of the same name inhabiting the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Baluba (African people)
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Luba (African people)
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Baluba
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Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)

Congoese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)
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Zairian
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Belgian Congo
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Belgisch Congo
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Congo Belge
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Congo Free State
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Zaire
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Zairean
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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ZaÔre
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Kongoese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)
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divination
Art or practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through divine sources, omens, or oracles; it is based on the belief that revelations are offered to humans in extrarational forms of knowledge. CCE [November 1994 alternate term added. January 1992 descriptor added.]

divinatory
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diviners
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beads
Use for small objects, of any shape or material, pierced so that they may be strung or hung or attached, as by sewing. [October 1996 scope note changed; descriptor changed, was "beads (round objects)". September 1996 alternate term changed, was "bead". December 1992 descriptor added.]

beadmaking
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beadwork
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bead (object genre)
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glass beads
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