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TRIBAL AFRICAN ART
LWENA (ALUENA, KALUENA, LOVALE, LUENA, LURALE, WENA)
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia
This
primarily Angolan tribe lives partially in DRC and in Zambia. Led by a king, the Mwana
Yamvo, the Lwena people support themselves from fishing in the wet plains
at the source of the Zambeze River, in Angola. The structure of Lwena art is largely based
on that of the Chokwe, but includes a more refined use of full, round shapes, and differ
also by the coiffures and scarifications on the cheeks and forehead. Artistically, the
Lwena appear to have focused their skills on carving female figures, which are also found
on decorative ‘prestige’ objects such as canes, combs and finger pianos, and on
masks. These differ from those of the Chokwe as their statues usually display a spherical
cross-hatched coiffure which is often divided by a vertical ridge, and angular linear
scarifications on their cheeks. All in all, it is a very female art related to a tribal
social structure in which women play important roles, including that of chief.
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