Living in the region between the Lubudi and Kasai rivers in south
central Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Luluwa people are
known for their elaborately carved male and female figure
sculptures, masks, and decorative arts. Constantine Petridis draws
on first-hand accounts of numerous explorers, missionaries,
colonial servants, anthropologists, and art historians who visited
the region between the 1880s and the 1970s, to comprehensively
situate the Luluwa's ornate art in its original environment of
production and use. Through a close study of published and
unpublished sources as well as museum objects and archival
photographs, this book sheds new light on the historical context of
one of central Africa's most spectacular artistic legacies, whose
creation presumably dates back to the second half of the 19th
century. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
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