Item #4380 FACE OF THE SPIRITS. Masks from the Zaire Basin. F. Herreman, C., Petridis.

FACE OF THE SPIRITS. Masks from the Zaire Basin

Antwerp: Ethnographic Museum, 1993. 262 pages, 110 full-page color photographs of masks, 5 smaller color photographs, 56 b/w photographs, 1 drawing, 7 maps in b/w and 1 color, fold-out map. Cloth cover, small folio size (10" x 13"). Item #4380

A dazzling exhibition of masks of the Bantu peoples of Zaire and northern Angola was exhibited in 1993 and 1994 at the Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp and Washington D.C.'s Nastional Museum of African Art. This comprehensive exhibition surveys the masks and masking traditions of these peoples and illustrates them in large, excellent photographs. Essays that discuss the masks were contributed by fifteen scholars.

Price: $225.00

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