SIGNS OF THE TIMES / TIMES OF THE SIGNS VI. A century of change at Kondi Pegue

Areas of particular interest

Copied from Desplagnes (1908)     © Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt am Main (2003)

Photo Louis Desplagnes (1905)
 		    
Photo Leo Frobenius (1908)
 
© Musée de l'Homme/Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2003)     © Alain Gallay (2003)

Photo Marcel Griaule (1931-1933)
 		    
Photo Alain Gallay (1965)
 
© Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (2003)     © Karl-Heinz Striedter (2003)

Photo Rogier Bedaux (1976)
 		    
Photo Karl-Heinz Striedter (1992)
 
© Brigit Dietz (2003)     © Cornelia Kleinitz (2003)

Photo Brigit Dietz (2000)
 		    
Photo Cornelia Kleinitz (2001)
 

This section was virtually empty in 1905, but by 1908 it had acquired paintings of 'staffs' on the right and left. A number of anthropomorphs and a circular form had been added by the 1930s. By 1965 white 'star'-like motifs had been added to the lower part of the section, an anthropomorph to the right part and a saurian motif to the upper left. All of the 'stars' except one had disappeared by 1992, at which time a number of motifs were painted in the central part of the section. In this period the anthropomorph and 'staff' on the lower right were joined. No further additions were visible after 1992, but re-painting led to an enlargement of the motifs.

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