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Deeply Engraved Kuba Tukula Box
This beautiful, old, square-edged box with deeply carved designs was purchased in Kinshasa before 1973 by former U.S. ambassador Robert Keating. It was used as a storage container for tukula (twool to the Kuba), the ground powder of the African sandalwood or Pterocarpus soyauxii. Tukula was used by Kuba women to decorate the face and chest, to anoint bodies for burial and, in combination with other pigments, to dye cloth.
6″ x 4″
