Alain LECOMTE, Raoul LEHUARD, Kovo N' SONDÉ, and Jean N' SON - Lot 71

Alain LECOMTE, Raoul LEHUARD, Kovo N' SONDÉ, and Jean N' SONDÉ. Bakongo: "The Fetishes." Éditions A. Lecomte, 2016. In-4 format, 432 pages with nearly 300 color illustrations. Limited to 700 copies, numbered by the typesetter (copy no. 492). Publisher’s hardcover binding with an illustrated dust jacket. “The first monograph devoted to the minkisi-minkondi of the Bakongo people, better known as ‘nail fetishes,’ we find a symbiosis of the metaphysical conception of art and magic, a blend of aesthetic power and mysterious force, of aggression and tranquility. Primarily found in a geographical area stretching from western Congo-Brazzaville to western Congo-Kinshasa, to Cabinda, these “fetishes” have, over the past centuries, been feared and dreaded by Europeans, who saw them as an obstacle to their conquest and evangelization.”