皇家席位（卢波纳）：女加里亚特 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	皇家席位（卢波纳）：女加里亚特
品名（英）	Royal Seat (Lupona): Female Caryatid
入馆年号	1978年，1978.412.317
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者	Luba artist
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1897
创作地区	刚果民主共和国东南部（southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo）
分类	木制家具（Wood-Furniture）
尺寸	高 23 1/4 x 宽 11 x 深 10 7/8 英寸 (59.1 x 27.9 x 27.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	卢巴人占据了今天刚果民主共和国东南部的河流和稀树草原。早在十七世纪，卢巴社会就由一个广泛的中央组织国家组成，其结构是神圣的王权和议会统治的原则。这个华丽而令人印象深刻的领导席位属于卢巴酋长。卢巴领导人的祖先可以追溯到一个神圣的国王王朝，卢巴王室的席位旨在复制这个神圣血统的祖先拥有的原始办公室席位。这些作品将其所有者与合法性的来源联系起来。尽管它们的功能形式，皇家凳子从不用于坐着，而是保存在国王宫殿中的神圣徽章。它们是隐喻的，而不是字面上的王权席位。卢巴领导席位的设计可以是抽象的，也可以是具象的。那些包含女性女像柱的人表达了卢巴将女性身体视为支持神圣王权的精神容器的概念。通过精致的皮肤装饰和修饰对女性身体的审美精致，隐喻了卢巴统治者在社会中传播的文明和精致。这种特殊的女像柱展示了锉刀般的牙齿，这是一种美化的做法，被认为是通过将单词和句子编织成令人钦佩的清晰和美丽的话语来使口语更加"甜美"。蓝白珠子，例如装饰这尊女像柱的珠子，由宫廷的重要成员佩戴，并为它们的主人提供精神保护。在这里，珠子强调了女像柱的高社会地位，并保护国王和凳子本身免受超自然的伤害。
介绍（英）	The Luba peoples occupy a land of rivers and savanna in the southeast of what is today The Democratic Republic of the Congo. As early as the seventeenth century, Luba society consisted of an extensive, centrally organized state structured on the principles of divine kingship and rule by council. This ornate and impressive seat of leadership belonged to a Luba chief. Luba leaders trace their ancestry to a dynasty of sacred kings, and Luba royal seats are intended to replicate an original seat of office owned by the progenitor of this divine lineage. Such works associate their owner with the source of his legitimacy. Despite their functional form, royal stools are never used for sitting but, rather, are sacred insignia preserved within a king's palace. They serve as metaphorical, not literal, seats of kingship. The design of Luba seats of leadership may either be abstract or figurative. Those incorporating female caryatids give expression to the Luba conception of the female body as a spiritual receptacle that supports divine kingship. The aesthetic refinement of the female body through elaborate skin ornamentation and coiffure serves as a metaphor for the civilization and refinement that Luba rulers disseminate within society. This particular caryatid displays filed teeth, a practice of beautification thought to render spoken language more "sweet" by weaving words and sentences into utterances of admirable clarity and beauty. Blue and white beads such as those that embellish this caryatid are worn by important members of the court and provide spiritual protection for their owners. Here, the beads emphasize the caryatid's high social status and shield both the king and the stool itself from supernatural harm.