Most of the matrilineal peoples of eastern Tanzania produce small, stylized figures like these to be used by female initiates during the period of seclusion that accompanies puberty and the ceremonies associated with rejoining the community. The...
Festival included: two art exhibitions (1) Drawing and the figure, 1400-1964 and (2) The President and the portrait: Presidents of the State University of Iowa from 1862-1964; Museum of Natural History exhibitions; lectures by Dr. Harlow Shapley,...