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ethnographic studies ■ This publication concludes Louis
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perrois’s trilogy on the most
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groups: Fang, punu, and Kota
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62 color and 18 black-and-white
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160 pages, 6½ × 9½"
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tending toward abstraction with an extraordinary and imaginative use of copper, tin, and iron for
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purposes of decoration. But what seems at first to
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motifs and the choice of the technique are linked to the kinship system or religious beliefs. The reliquary figures and initiation masks of the Kota as instruments useful in arousing the forces
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coastal area of western equatorial Africa,
have developed an astonishing creativity in
a symbolic function, as most of the decorative
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have been a matter of aesthetic taste has in fact
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itAlY AND FRANCE he Kota people, who live in Gabon in the
figures combine a sharp sense of stylized reality
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byeri and other nkisi punu, they have gradually paying tribute to ancestral values of the peoples
Chowke
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Fang
of the netherworld among the Gabonese and
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of the African equatorial forest.
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louis perrois is an ethnologist specializing in the ancient arts and cultures of equatorial Africa.
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