ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura femminile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture the Holy Family traverses a

the Holy Family traverses a nighttime landscape

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ARTE POPOLARE DELL’AFRICA CENTRO-ORIENTALE, Figura femminile, Fine XX-inizio XXI secolo sculture the Holy Family traverses aSculpted and pigmented African mahogany statue from Uganda. The style is inspired by the traditions of the Congolese basin, particularly the Songye and Luba tribes. The geometric and chromatic decorations on the face refer to a symbolic language linked to protection and belonging; these are signs that do not have a unique and codified meaning: they were fluid codes, legible only by initiates, and varied from clan to clan. The circle, for example, is