Research Catalog

Title

Bundu, Sowei headpieces of the Sande society of West Africa : the Imperato family collection / Gavin H. Imperato, Pascal James Imperato.

Author

Imperato, Gavin H., 1980-

Publication

Bayside : Queensborough Community College; Kilima House Publishers, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Imperato, Pascal James.
• QCC Art Gallery.

Description

xxi, 177 p. : ill., map; 28 cm

Subjects

• Imperato family > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Mende (African people) > Rites and ceremonies > Exhibitions
• Sande Society Exhibitions
• Women > Africa, West > Rites and ceremonies > Exhibitions
• Masks, African > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions

Note

• "This publication accompanies an exhibition held at the QCC Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bayside, New York, 2012."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / William C. Siegmann -- Preface / Faustino Quintanilla -- Introduction / Leonard Kahan -- Authors' prologue and acknowledgments -- [I]. Historical documentation of the Sande Society. [1]. Accounts of the Portuguese: Antonio Fernandes ; Pedro da Sintra ; Duarte Pacheco Pereira ; Alvise da Cadamosto ; Alvaro Velho -- [2]. Overview of early European descriptions of the Sande Society: general comments ; Valentim Fernandes ; André Alvares d'Almada ; Baltasar Barreira -- [3]. Seventeenth and eighteenth century descriptions of the Sande Society: Olfert Dapper and John Barbot ; John Matthews ; Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, M.D. -- [4]. Evidence of absence or absence of evidence concerning Sande Society masks at the end of the eighteenth century -- [5]. Nineteenth century Christian missionary encounters: George Thompson ; Joseph May ; C.F. Schlenker ; United Brethren in Christ missionaries ; The "1869" Prince Momolu Massaquoi mask -- [6]. Comments of some nineteenth century travelers into the interior of Sierra Leone -- [7]. The first documentation of helmet mask use in Sande Society ceremonies in Liberia and Sierra Leone: Johann Büttikofer ; Thomas Joshua Alldridge ; Harry Hamilton Johnston ; Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew -- [8]. Other observations in the early decades of the twentieth century: Swiss travelers and collectors ; Northcote Thomas ; Frederick William Hugh Migeod ; T.W. Butt-Thompson ; Milton Augustus Margai ; Kenneth L. Little ; Guy Massie-Taylor. -- [II]. Sande through the postmodern lens. -- [III]. Sande in the new millennium. -- [IV]. The Sande Society : power, beauty, and female agency : overview of the Sande Society: Sande initiation and circumcision ; Sande Society organization ; Sande masks ; The sculpting of masks ; Sande masquerades. -- [V]. The Sowei headpiece : invariance and innovation: Hairstyles ; Neck rings ; Janus representations ; Birds and snakes ; Aquatic creatures ; Amulets and talismans ; Flaps ; Sculpted horns ; Prestige symbols ; Cooking pots ; Cowrie shells ; Aesthetics ; Gonde and Gongoli masks ; The naming of masks ; Sande medicine heads. -- [VI]. The Humoi, Gongoli, Gbetu, and Njagba masquerades, and the Poro Tasso figure: The Humoi Society masquerade ; The Gongoli masquerade ; The Gbetu masquerade ; The Njagba masquerade ; The Poro Tasso figure -- [VII]. Catalogue of headpieces.

Call Number

Sc F 14-112

ISBN

• 9781936658107 (alk. paper)
• 1936658100 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2011046692

OCLC

768728881

Author

Imperato, Gavin H., 1980-

Title

Bundu, Sowei headpieces of the Sande society of West Africa : the Imperato family collection / Gavin H. Imperato, Pascal James Imperato.

Imprint

Bayside : Queensborough Community College; Kilima House Publishers, 2012.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Imperato, Pascal James.

QCC Art Gallery.

Research Call Number

Sc F 14-112