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Face of the spirits : masks from the Zaire Basin / editors, Frank Herreman, Constantijn Petridis ; photography, Dick Beaulieux ; with contributions by M.-L. Bastin ... [et al.].

Title
Face of the spirits : masks from the Zaire Basin / editors, Frank Herreman, Constantijn Petridis ; photography, Dick Beaulieux ; with contributions by M.-L. Bastin ... [et al.].
Publication
Tervuren, Belgie : Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Herreman, Frank.
  • Petridis, Constantijn.
  • Beaulieux, Dick.
  • Bastin, Marie Louise.
  • Etnografisch Museum (Antwerp, Belgium).
  • National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Description
261 p. : ill (chiefly col.), maps; 33 cm. + 1 map.
Series Statement
[Annales. Sciences humaines ; 140]
Uniform Title
[Annales. Sciences humaines ; 140].
Subject
  • Masks > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Exhibitions
  • Sculpture, Congolese (Democratic Republic) > Exhibitions
  • Masks (Sculpture) > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • One folded map in back pocket.
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, Sept. 18 - Dec. 31, 1993 and at the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., April 20 - Sept. 25, 1994.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Face of the spirits / Frank Herreman -- Masks among the Kongo peoples / Raoul Lehuard -- An introduction to Nkanu and Mbeeko masks / Alphonse Lema Gwete -- Masks and masking among the Yaka, Suku and related peoples / Arthur P. Bourgeois -- Pende mask styles / Constantijn Petridis -- The akishi spirits of the Chokwe / Marie-Louise Bastin -- Material and formal aspects of copper masks from the Upper Kasai / Rik Ceyssens -- The practice of metal application to African masks / Elze Bruyninx -- Masks among the Kuba peoples / Joseph Cornet -- The Kifwebe masking phenomenon / Dunja Hersak -- Sout-east Zaire : masks of the Luba, Hemba and Tabwa / François Neyt -- Masks and initiation among the Lega cluster of peoples / Daniel P. Biebuyck -- The animal in us : the ubiquitous zoomorphic masking phenomenon of eastern Zaire / Marc Leo Felix -- Mask styles and mask use in the north of Zaire / Herman Burssens -- Zairian masking in historical perspective / Jan Vansina.
ISBN
9053490671
OCLC
  • 30001168
  • SCSB-9896158
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library