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Flying over dikenga: The circle of new life-gctid85857

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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.


Plates 2-5. From left to right Cambambi, Quissanji, Tchitundo-Hulo, and Cambambi. Adapted from Carlos Ervedosa, 1980.



Plate 6. Kimbwandende Kia Fu-Kiau highlights the basic structural diversity in contemporary Dikenga depictions.


Plate 7. Robert Farris Thompson series of signs. Adapted from Robert Farris Thompson, 1981.


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.


Plate 10. View of Tadi dia Mpemba near Nkwanza village around 35 km north of Mbanza Kongo, Angola. Photo: Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, 2002.


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).



Plate 16. Sona sign Ku-Tanga that represents the notion of creation among the Chokwe. After Emil Pearson, 1977.

 
 Plates 17-18. Example from Clementine Faik-Nzuji, Chihongo mask. After Manuel Jordan, 1999.


 Plate 19. Detail depicting Dikenga cosmogram. Adapted from Paul Raymaekers and Hendrik van Moorsel, 1962.



 Plate 20. Chokwe wall painting. From José Redinha, 1953.



Plate 21. Pwo mask, Chokwe, early 20th century. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Stanley Collection, 1986.545. After Manuel Jordan, 2000.



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.



Plate 24. Pwo masks. After Marc Felix and Manuel Jordan, 1998.