GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Bantu-speaking Boma peoples (also called Buma) live in the central savannah region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their small hunting and farming society, numbering about 25,000, is organized into chiefdoms. Boma artists carve angular wooden figures that provide protection against adverse forces in the universe.
Excerpt from
Roslyn A. Walker, The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), 300.
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General Description
The Bantu-speaking Boma peoples (also called Buma) live in the central savannah region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their small hunting and farming society, numbering about 25,000, is organized into chiefdoms. Boma artists carve angular wooden figures that provide protection against adverse forces in the universe.
Excerpt from
Roslyn A. Walker, The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), 300.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
(digitized/non-digitized)
Web Resources
- Smart History~Read an overview of the peoples and cultures in Africa.
Notes
rules
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Objects
culture
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boma
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