The Bongo people are hunters and gatherers in south-west Sudan. Their artistic testimonia are funerary steles, which are erected about a year after the death of an important tribal member. With solemn ceremonies, large stone settings are piled up over the grave of the deceased, and such memorial figures are…
In Pende tribe , Democratic Republic of Congo, a protective post is carved with a representation of a maternity scene. The ancestral, matrilineal mother is depicted standing with her feet blending into the base and holding her child with her left hand while placing her right hand on her hip.…