Baessler-Archiv: Baessler-Archiv,  17=42.1969

Baessler-Archiv, 17=42.1969

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

Persistenter Identifier:: BV044347945

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv

Untertitel:: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde

ISSN:: 0005-3856

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Reimer

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1910

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711380

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1499063344266

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv, 17=42.1969

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1969

Signatur:: LA 1255

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Strukturtyp:: Zeitschriftenheft

Titel:: N.F. Bd. 17, 1969, Heft 1

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: The role of plastiv art traditions in Tanzania. The Norteastern Region

Sonstige Person:: Hartwig, Gerald W.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XVII (1969) 25 THE ROLE OE PLASTIC ART TRADITIONS IN TANZANIA. THE NORTHEASTERN REGION* GERALD W. HARTWIG Traditions of sculpturing the human figure or a portion of it in wood are relatively infrequent in eastern Africa. Our present knowledge of these tradi tions that existed before 1900 is also extremely meager. Recent efforts by Eckart von Sydow 1 and William B. Fagg 2 to draw some attention of the academic community to this region are commencing to reap the anticipated dividends. With the publication of Ladislav Holy’s pioneering volume 3 , one devoted entirely to eastern and southern Africa, we are confronted by the initial major contemporary appraisal of plastic human and animal representation. Though Holy’s volume contains major short-comings, it should stimulate sufficient interest in these formerly ignored regions to merit the appreciation of East Africans and Africanists. As the title of this paper suggests, the role of plastic art traditions is funda mental to an understanding of sculpture in eastern Africa. Though the role of any item is usually the first step taken when investigating a tradition, this is doubly important for East Africa for three reasons. Firstly, for most sculpture we do not possess an accurate, detailed description of its role. Secondly, because the role differs so basically from similar West African sculpture, it must be * Visits to the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, the British Museum in London, the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, and The National Museum in Dar es Salaam, as well as field work inBukerebe, was made possible by a fellowship granted to the author by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program. The conclusions, opinions, and other sta tements in this paper are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Fellowship program. All illustrations below have been supplied through the courtesy of Professor Dr. Kurt Krieger and the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, which houses the illustrated pieces of sculpture. 1 E. von Sydow, Afrikanische Plastik (New York, 1954), 99-106. 2 W. B. Fagg, Tribes and Forms in African Art (New York, 1965), 115-120. 3 L. Holy, The Art of Africa: Masks and Figures from Eastern and Southern Africa (London, 1967).

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