Njom: The Magical Bridge of the Beti and Bulu of Southern Cameroon LEON SIROTO he statuettes made by the so- vitality of this numerous and widespread [nto the beginning of this century, a called Fang people of Western Equatorial people was confined 1o such...
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Njom: The Magical Bridge of the Beti and Bulu of Southern Cameroon LEON SIROTO he statuettes made by the so- vitality of this numerous and widespread [nto the beginning of this century, a called Fang people of Western Equatorial people was confined 1o such a narrow rangeof number of contiguous and related peoples in Africa are among the most highly appreciated representation. southern Cameroon carved logs into tableaus examples of African traditional art. Familiar- Awareness of the problems in delimiting of considerable cultural importance and ity with the style and provenience of these a “"Fang"" people and style should help us 1o iconographic complexity. These works have reliquary guardian Nigures has led 10 a view of perceive that the range of their art encompas- escaped our artention as another dimension of “*Fang" figure sculpture as concerned exclu- ses other kinds of figure sculpture. Visualiz- the art of the **Fang."" Our knowledge of this sively with relatively small, lustrous
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