Giant Masks From The Congo - A Belgian Jesuit Ethnographic Heritage

The remarkable collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa were assembled over a period spanning more than a century through purchases, field work, and donations. The collectors came in many guises: territorial agents, agricultural engineers, ethnologists, soldiers, physicians. And some were missionaries. Jesuit missionaries acquired an impressive number of pieces from the southwestern part of what is now Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their collection work and the scientific ties they created with the RMCA are the subjects of this book.