🚁Belgisch Congo Léopoldville Airfield NDjili de Terminal 1959
Bongo drum
Hidalgo
CONGO BELGE - KATANGA - 1956 - DANSEURS GUERRIERS BALUBA - MWANZA
Photographs by Corrado Serra. "The exhibition focuses on one of the continent's most influential artistic traditions, from the earliest moment of direct engagement between African and European leaders at the end of the 15th century through the early 20th century. The creative output of Kongo artists of Central Africa is represented by 146 works drawn from more than 50 institutional…
The Division of Anthropology is concerned with all aspects of human behavior, past, present, and with an eye to the future.
Photographs by Corrado Serra. "The exhibition focuses on one of the continent's most influential artistic traditions, from the earliest moment of direct engagement between African and European leaders at the end of the 15th century through the early 20th century. The creative output of Kongo artists of Central Africa is represented by 146 works drawn from more than 50 institutional…
Kongo. Hat (Mpu), late 19th century. Fiber,
The Kingdom of Kongo, in central Africa, officially became Christian in the late 1400s, after the baptism of its king. This opened the door to Catholic missionaries, and the Christian ideas and icons that began circulating through the kingdom soon found their way into Kongo art and religious thought. The crucifix was the foremost of these icons, a potent symbol of the new faith that happened to mirror the indigenous “cosmogram,” a cross-like symbol conveying the Kongo concept of a two-way passage between the world of the living and the world of the dead. These two crucifixes were powerful aids to piety and ritual. One was attached to a wooden cross, now missing, while the other is made entirely of metal. The small figures in postures of prayer on the cross-bar and on the bottom of the cross are Kongo inventions, possibly representing mourners or ancestors.
Saola. Photographer unknown.
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Made from lightweight fiberglass, and topped with Remo heads for enhanced projection, these Pearl Primero congas deliver rich sound in a portable package.
Mobutu Palace, DRCongo
