ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura maschile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo vasi barely visible in the basket

barely visible in the basket on the head of the man below: here nature and humanity are in serene symbiosis

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A plate with a similar title and the drawing of the expulsion of demons from the house is in the illustrated album Hokusai soga (1820) and in Hokusai Manga vol

printed by Mourlot Frères for the publisher André Sauret

printed in a total of 250 copies by imprimerie Darantiere in Dijon

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