ART OF CENTRAL AFRICA. Masterpieces From the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1990. 87 pages, 17 large color and 52 b/w photographs, 1 map. More
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1990. 87 pages, 17 large color and 52 b/w photographs, 1 map. More
Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1987. 85 pages, 8 full-page color and 30 pages of b/w photographs. Zairian masterpieces in the collection of the Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin are presented in this handsome volume. A discussion of Zairian art precedes the catalogue that illustrates 49 of the Museum's more important pieces..... More
Studia Ethnographica Up-saliensia, VIII: 1957. 172 pages (many uncut), 38 pages of drawings of objects and 2 full-page photographs of objects. Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint condition. Volume II examines the family, law and social organization. More
1968. 206 pages (many uncut), 31 drawings of objects. Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint condition. Published in a folio size edition limited to 500 copies and with an English text, each volume deals with different aspects of Congoloses culture. Volume II examines the family, law and social organization. Volume..... More
Koninklijk Museum Voor Midden Afrika, Neiuwerke Reeks, No. 3, Tervuren: 1962. Two volumes. Vol. 1: 248 pages, 14 photographs, 57 drawings, 427 graphs. Vol. 2: 96 pages, 467 photographs, 4 maps. The "sanza", the musical instrument with intricately carved designs and patterns that has been described as, "...neither percussion nor..... More
Tervuren: 1968. Volume II only, of 2, 10 1/2" x 12". Vol. 2: 58 pages, 313 photographs of "slit" drums, 3 maps. A major study from the Museum for Central Africa (Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo), this one dealing with the "slit" drums in the Museum's Congolese collections. The..... More
Tervuren: Museum for Central Africa, 1968. 58 pages, 313 photographs of slit drums, 3 maps. Small folio size, 10 1/2"x12" New and unopened copy. More
Paris: 1980. 264 pages, 142 photographs--mostly full-page of nail fetishes, 3 pages of drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 800 copies. Mint condition with dust jacket. This volume, limited to a printing of 800 copies, is the major work available on nail fetishes. Given the prices of such..... More
Arnouville: 1989. Two volumes. 679 pages, 16 color and 762 b/w photographs, 44 drawings, 16 maps. Cloth covers, in a cloth slipcase, mint condition. This comprehensive two volume work addresses the style centers of Kongo art and the considerable confusion and imprecision regarding the identification of sculptural pieces from the..... More
Paris: 1974. 188 pages, 105 photographs, 12 drawings, 7 maps. Mint condition. An illuminating study (in French) of the art styles and technology of the peoples, primarily Teke and Bembe, who live in the area around Stanley Pool in the lower Zaire River Basin. Particular reference is given to their..... More
Bremen: Ubersee Museum, 1980. Approximately 200 pages, 64 pages of large b/w photographs, 8 pages of large color photographs, 183 smaller b/w photographs, 12 maps. Biebuyck, 659. "Important catalogue...arranges thte sculpture into eight geographic regions..." More
Seattle: 1990. 96 pages, 8 full-page color and 57 b/w photographs of objects that Torday acquired for the British Museum during the first decade of the 20th century, 2 maps. Emil Torday acquired more than 3,000 Congolese objects for the British Museum that included some of the most important and..... More
Pages 149-220, containing 35 photographs-- principally of artifacts, plus 7 leaves of photographs of maternal figures. Bound in later cloth over original folio (11 1/4" x 14 1/4") wrappers. The tops of some pages are uncut. These two classic studies by Dr. J Maes and are among the most sought..... More
Exposition Universelle et International de Bruxelles, 1958. 38 unnumbered pages of text containing 14 small drawings of traditional objects and figures, plus 11 unnumbered pages of color photographs and 35 unnumbered pages of b/w photographs--about half of which are of traditional objects, and the other half are of contemporary Congolese..... More
Munich: 1989. 57 pages, 39 full-page duotone photographs of woven wicker, raffia "mats" of the Mbole of northeastern Zaire, 5 figures, 1 map. Catalogue of an exhibition that visited four gGerman museums during 1989-90. Hard board cover. Thirty-nine full-page, closely detailed photographs of the woven, wicker "mats" of the Mbole..... More
Bruxelless: 1897. xiv,, 523 pages, approximately 80 photographs, 150 drawings and 15 maps. This guide book served to introduce the culture, ethnography, and history of the Congolese peoples to the world. Fine condition. More
Ann Arbor: 1985. xvi, 288 pages, 15 color and 401 b/w photographs, 16 drawings, 2 maps. A superb catalogue raisonne of more than 400 Tabwa objects in collecitons outside of Africa. It would be difficult to overpraise this superb study of the art of Tabwa of Central Africa. A catalogue..... More
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 1999. 153 pages, 70 color photographs, 64 small b/w photographs, 7 b/w photographs of the exhibition, 1 map. Very good-fine condition, small-folio size (9"x12"). More
Munich: 1985. 183 pages (text in English, French and German), 63 photographs, 1 map. Hard board cover. Fine condition. This study of Songye sculpture, in particular, grooved kifwebe (masks), provides a first-rate summary of the history of the carvings and their usage and the secret societies for which they were..... More
London and New York: 1986 (first edition). 205 pages, 100 pages of color and 14 pages of b/w photographs, more than 1,000 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. Quite probably the largest study published on Kuba cloth, this strikingly handsome volume is a welcome respone to the recent great interest in..... More
Paris: 1994. 253 pages, 121 color and 89 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover. Small folio size (9 1/2" x 13"). Twenty years of research by the author have resulted in the publication of this volume, the most comprehensive study to date of the Luba arts. Centered around the main..... More
Brussels: 1954. 56 pages (text in French, Flemish, and English). 45 pages of b/w and 8 pages of color photographs. More
Tervuren: 1952. 28 pages, 24 full-page photographs. More
Etnologica, Neuefolge, Band 16: 1990. 107 pages, 3 color and 109 b/w photographs, 6 drawings, 1 map. Decorated hard board cover. An exhibition of niombo and muzidi figures was presented in 1990 at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Niombo (anthropomorphic funerary figures)and muzidi (smaller figures) found in Sundi province in the Kongo, were encased..... More
New York & Munich: 1996. 258 pages, 16 color and 180 b/w photographs, 4 drawings, 3 maps. Catalogue for a 1996 exhibition at the Museum for African Art. Cloth cover. More than 100 of the most important Luba works in collections around the world are being exhibited in 1996 at..... More