Christopher D Roy 165 x 240 mm 160 pages 62 colour and 21 b/w illustrations Paperback Editore: 5 Continents Argomento: ISBN / Barcode: 9788874397006 Euro € 35.00 A new volume in the successful series Visions of Africa edited by Constantin Petridis, Head Curator of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Devoted to the arts of Africa, each volume in the series is dedicated to a different ethnic group and authored by a leading expert in the field.The Mossi people of Burkina Faso have a rich and complex history that is mirrored by the several types and styles of figures and masks they create. The Mossi people came into being in around 1500 AD, when a large group of horsemen from what is now northern Ghana rode north into the valleys of the Volta Rivers and conquered the local farming peoples. The descendants of the conquering horsemen became the chiefs and used political art in the form of royal figures to validate their rule, while the descendants of the conquered farmers became the spiritual class and made masks that represent the spirits of nature, and whose geographical |