[ZAIRE - KONGO]. LEHUARD, Raoul. Fétiches à clous du Bas-Zaï - Lot 174

[ZAIRE - KONGO]. LEHUARD, Raoul. Fétiches à clous du Bas-Zaïre. Arnouville, Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1980. In-4, publisher's blue cloth boards, in illustrated dust jacket. 264 pages, some drawings and 142 black photographs, some full- or double-page. Dust jacket faded, slightly soiled and chipped, with small tears at top edge, binding covers a little rubbed. Important study by the founder and editor of the journal "Arts d'Afrique Noire" devoted to nail fetishes - or Nkonde - in Kongo society. Lehuard offers an artistic and ethnological analysis of these statuettes, the techniques employed in their manufacture and their magical virtues. Worn dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy of this rare catalog.