ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile n. 2, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi ready to resume his pipe

ready to resume his pipe

Off-text board for Mirò Cartones

Hokusai and His School: Paintings

the number 426 and the initials of a collector not recorded by Lugt

le tre scimmiette attendenti del dio: Mizaru

ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile n. 2, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi ready to resume his pipeStatue in carved and pigmented African mahogany from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly the Songye and Luba tribes. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language linked to protection and belonging; these are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, readable only by initiates, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for example, is