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Kota (Hardcover)
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An in-depth exploration of the significance of art in the culture
of the Kota people of Gabon in equatorial Africa, focusing on form,
function and meaning, as well as the interplay of verbal and visual
imagery. This new title in the Visions of Africa series offers a
deep insight into the art of the Kota people of Gabon in the
coastal area of western equatorial Africa. The Kota have developed
an astonishing creativity in their representations of their
ancestors. Their dreamlike figures combine a sharp sense of
stylised reality tending towards abstraction with an extraordinary
and imaginative use of copper, tin, and iron for purposes of
decoration. But what seems to have been just a matter of aesthetic
'taste' has in fact a symbolic function, as most of the decorative
motifs and the choice of the technique are linked to the Kota's
kinship system or religious beliefs. The same applies to the use of
copper, which was a rare material and consequently a mark of wealth
and power in their society. The mbulu-ngulu reliquary figure was an
icon, the visual sign of a world in which the ancestors continued
to watch over their descendants. In Kota lands it was an essential
'tool' in group survival, one that enabled a continuous
communication to be established between the living and the dead.
The reliquary figures and initiation masks of the Kota and Mbete
served as aides-memoire and instruments useful in arousing the
forces of the netherworld among the Gabonese and Congolese in times
past. Together with the Fang byeri and other nkisi punu, in their
various forms they have gradually become the time-honoured emblems
of the culture and ancestral values of the peoples of the great
African equatorial forest.
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