Art of Equatorial Guinea: The Fang Tribes

by Louis Perrois, Marta Sierra Delage

$125 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 177, 1 pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth with black lettering on spine. The Fang tribes of Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea carved polished wooden statues, used in ancestor worship, that are fiercely enigmatic and were said to possess certain powers. Manipulation of these naked female and male figures was believed to resuscitate the

• Binding: Hardcover

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