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Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.
According to Alisa LaGamma in Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures: [1]. The artist's signature expressionistic style features exaggeration of the face and hands through elongation, which allowed him to reinterpret and ingeniously exploit the formal possibilities of different genres of prestige sculpture: standing figures as caryatid supports for seats...seated mboko (bowl ...
According to Alisa LaGamma, the root may be from the regional word Nkongo which means "hunter" in the context of someone adventurous and heroic. [ 13 ] It may be derived from the proto-bantu word for hunter, similar to the IsiZulu term khonto, which means spear as in "umkhonto we sizwe", Spear of the Nation, the name for the military wing of ...
Based on the position of the rungs, Metropolitan curator Alisa LaGamma also affirmed the theory. [12] Benin specialist and anthropologist Paula Ben-Amos, however, wrote that the masks were worn on the waist as pendants during the Ugie Iyoba and Emobo ceremonies. [12] The hollow masks likely served as amuletic containers. [12]
LaGamma, Alisa (2015). Kongo: Power and Majesty. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588395757. Meuwese, Mark (2012). Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Dutch-indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World. Leiden, Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-21083-7. Van der Ham, Gijs (2013). Dof Goud. Nederland en Ghana, 1593–1872. Amsterdam ...
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The Beembe (also Bembe, Babembe, Babeembe) are a Bantu people living in southern Congo-Brazzaville, precisely in Bouenza and in the cities of Brazzaville, Dolisie, and Pointe-Noire.