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Title: Flying over dikenga: The circle of new life-gctid85857
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Jun 30, 2013, 08:53 AM
Flying over dikenga: The circle of new life

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Plate 1. Luvo rupestrian painting. Adapted from Paul Raymaekers and Hendrik van Moorsel, 1962.
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Plates 2-5. From left to right Cambambi, Quissanji, Tchitundo-Hulo, and Cambambi. Adapted from Carlos Ervedosa, 1980.
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Plate 6. Kimbwandende Kia Fu-Kiau highlights the basic structural diversity in contemporary Dikenga depictions.
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Plate 7. Robert Farris Thompson series of signs. Adapted from Robert Farris Thompson, 1981.
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Plates 8-9. Left, Dikenga sign decorating a grave, Luanda cemetery, Angola, 2002; Right Dikenga in Tadi dia Mpemba, Mfukw'a Maya, Mbanza Kongo, Angola, 2003. Photos: Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz.
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Plate 10. View of Tadi dia Mpemba near Nkwanza village around 35 km north of Mbanza Kongo, Angola. Photo: Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, 2002.
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Plates 11-15. Left: First from left to right rupestrian engraving, Luvo, D. R. C. and common engraved in Chihongo and Pwo masks among Chokwe people in Lunda, Angola. (Adapted from Paul Raymaekers and Hendrik van Moorsel, 1962 and Manuel Jordan, 1999).
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Plate 16. Sona sign Ku-Tanga that represents the notion of creation among the Chokwe. After Emil Pearson, 1977.
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 Plates 17-18. Example from Clementine Faik-Nzuji, Chihongo mask. After Manuel Jordan, 1999.
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 Plate 19. Detail depicting Dikenga cosmogram. Adapted from Paul Raymaekers and Hendrik van Moorsel, 1962.
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 Plate 20. Chokwe wall painting. From José Redinha, 1953.
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Plate 21. Pwo mask, Chokwe, early 20th century. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Stanley Collection, 1986.545. After Manuel Jordan, 2000.
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Plate 22. Kuba Lembéta sign, left inside. Plate 23. Shell used among Lunda and Chokwe people in Angola and Zambia. From Clementine Fail Nzuji, 2000, and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz personal collection, 1998.
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Plate 24. Pwo masks. After Marc Felix and Manuel Jordan, 1998.
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 Plate 25: Left: Diviner Sosonbo from Manuel Jordan personal collection, 1992.
Plate 26. Right: flagpole shrine. After Boris Wastiau, 1999.
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Post by: Kala Kambon on Apr 08, 2015, 09:04 AM
Why am I not seeing any of these plates?
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 Plate 27. Firma for the mpungu (spirit) Kalunga. From Osvaldo Fresneda, 1988.
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 Plates 28-30. Three examples of the Firma representing Lucero. From Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Personal Collection.
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Post by: Mani Kongo on Apr 08, 2015, 09:08 PM
QuoteKala Kambon;148307 wrote: Why am I not seeing any of these plates?
I don't know I think others can see them.
Can you see the other ones I posted after you asked that question ?
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 Plate 31. Vèvè for the Loa Legba. After Milo Rigaud, 1974.
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Plate 32. Vèvè for the Loa Legba. Legba as a space marker represents the crossroad, one of the preferential locations of the deity in Vodun religious tradition. After Milo Rigaud, 1974.
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Plate 33. Ponto Riscado (Drawn point) Rei de Congo (King of Kongo). The graphic writing has been used to indicate the Kongo origin of Umbanda religious tradition. After Robert Farris Thompson, 1991.
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 Plate 34. Ponto Riscado Vovó Bahiana Congo (The Kongo grandmother). After N.A. Molina.