Since these beautiful figures were first published in the 1979 catalogue of the Stanley Collection, important research has been carried out among the Lobi by Piet Meyer, representing the Museum Rietberg Zurich, and published in 1981 in an...
Researchers in the field in Ghana and Upper Volta have reported two important functions for the wooden figures carved by the Lobi. Goody (1962:224.226) and Rattray (1932 II :434, figs.110,111) describe figures called sa da or kpiin da...
Lobi men have traditionally carried small stools hooked over their left shoulders wherever they went. In addition to their normal function, stools have been used frequently as weapons (Labouret 1931:188, pl. 16 no 1).Thompson (1974:87) claims that...
Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.
"The Eighteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa is proud to present the first major exhibition in this area of African sculpture in which a survey of the principle tribal styles is attempted. The exhibition has been...