Among the many types of "dolls" in the various areas of African arts style, a type of other less well known is this, coming from the Luba of the inner zone of the Congo. Formerly incorrectly referred to as "figures of twins" in the likeness of the same name figures in the west Africa, these "dolls" Luba are now clearly identified as protective figures that girls / girls in Luba take care during the period of isolation from the social group in the period initiation into adulthood.
error, evidenced among others by the famous scholar of the area in question Marc Leo Felix (communication personal 04-01-2007), probably dates back to an erroneous interpretation of similar "dolls" of Tabwa by the scholars who edited the famous catalog of exposure on the population at the Smithsonian in 1986.
However, it is evident from the truncated cone-cylindrical configuration of the human figure represented the relationship of these figures and Luba Tabwa with the most famous "little dolls" Zaramo Kwere and Tanzania, not so far away geographically. It 's a particularly telling example of how a certain type of African aesthetics come at a very extreme level of a human figure, in this case reduced to simple geometric solids overlap.
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