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Kuba Box from the Keating Collection
This beautifully worn, crescent shaped box was purchased in Kinshasa before 1973 by future World Bank director Robert Keating. At the time indigenous art merchants, locally know as bag-men, regularly traveled from the countryside to sell artifacts to foreigners and wholesalers in the Congolese capital. So rich was the material culture of Central Africa that even after the devastating effects of decades of colonial rule much in the way of fine, antique art and crafts remained long after the colonizers had left with their trunkfuls of treasures. 12″ in length.
