Rare and/or out of print Southern African Tribal Art Books

 

Beaute Fatale - Dodelijk Mooi   Wapens Uit Centraal-Afrika         Beaute Fatale - Arme d'Afrique Centrale                Dodelijk Mooi - Wapens Uit Centraal-Afrika, is the DUTCH VERSION of Beaute Fatale - Arme d'Afrique Centrale. This is a highly important catalogue of an African Weapons exhibition which took place 18/12/1992 to 28/02/1993 - Le Crédit Communale de Belgique - Passage 44 - Bruxelles.                Dodelijk Mooi - Beaute Fatale has over 500 images of African weapons, African shields, African maps, drawings and tribal photographs. Fantastic objects were assembled from six museums as well as European private collections.                Items included are from Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial French Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zaire 'Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC'. Major tribal groups were divided into 16 ethnic and stylistic groups.              Titles and contributors to the textual content of the catalogue include: INTRODUCTION - Jan Elsen PREMIERE EXPLOITATION DU FER EN AFRIQUE CENTRALE - Francis Van Noten LA TERRIBLE BEAUTE DES OUTILS DE MORT: LES ARMES ET LA SCULPTURE - Marc Felix LE TRESSEUR DE BOUCLIERS - Jan Elsen DENOMINATION ET FONCTION DES ARMES - Jan Elsen LA GUERRE - Jan Elsen LES ARMES COMME MOYENS D'ECHANGE - Jacques Schoonheyt LE PERMIS CHEZ LES NDENGESE - Jan Elsen LA HIERARCHIE DANS LES ARMES KUBA ET LES COUTEAUX DE CHEF WOYO ET KAKONGO - Joseph Cornet LES SOCIETES SECRETES - Jan Elsen NGULU, LE COUTEAU D'EXECUTION - Christian Gosseau INTRODUCTION A L'ETUDE DES ARMES A FEU DE TRAITE EN AFRIQUE A LA VEILLE DE LA COLONISATION EUROPEENNE - Paul Dubrunfaut APERCU PAR COMPLEXE ETHNIQUE - Jan Elsen CARTES et DESSINS - Charles Meur              Lenders to the Exhibition: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale de Tervuren Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde de Leyde Museum für Volkerkunde de Berlin Etnografisch Museum d'Anvers Musée Royal de l'Armée de Bruxelles Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre de Kinshasa Various Private Collectors                The book is by far a MUST HAVE for serious collectors or scholars interested in traditional African weapons, their distribution and use.                Price: $950.00 plus postage.     Visit our African Weapons Galleries                                                                          Southern Africa                                   Central Africa                            North-West Africa     Follow this link to view other Southern African tribal art books on offer.