Cahier 32 Mission Boma 2 Du 18 au 26 octobre 1979 Mission Photographique au Kasai Du 23 novembre au 6 décembre 1979 - Cahier 32 Mission Boma 2 Du 18 au 26 octobre 1979 Mission Photographique au Kasai Du 23 novembre au 6 décembre 1979

Mission Boma 2 (pgs. 4-42)—Research in Boma region continues; map indicating location of villages and roads in area; notes and photographs documenting grave goods on cemeteries near the villages of Tamba, Kilele, Mao, Lamba Teye , Kidiaki, Teye Kikuku, and Kitandu; photographs of basket maker, house types and house construction; interviews with sculptors who create funerary sculpture (ntadi); interpretation of themes presented on stone sculpture belonging to the national museum collection; detailed photographs of designs found on funerary ceramics. Kasai Photographic Mission (pgs. 43-70)—Mission to complete text and photographs for book Art Royal Kuba; notes on travel from Kinshasa to Kuba region; photographs by Angelo Turconi including people in traditional and modern attire; notes on Kuba titleholding and prestige regalia; plan views of Kuba royal capital with legend showing place names; list of objects purchased for the national museum collection. Mission Boma (pgs. 73-81)—Supplementary notes by Citoyen Longo; several photographs of stone sculpture (ntadi); photograph of Woyo chief’s knife from private collection, notes by informants on stone sculpture including centers of production, names of sculptors, vocabulary in Kikongo related to sculpture; photographs of stone sculpture from unidentified collection. Mission Kuba continues (pgs.82-157)—Notes on travel to Kuba region; list of Kuba rulers; notes on French/Bushoong vocabulary; list of insignia (mbol) attributed to each Kuba monarch; notes with portrait photographs of various individuals; biography of Kwete Mwana (the biography continues in notebook 35, page 47); photographs of several documents in the archive of Kwete Mwana letters dated 1919, 1936, 1939, and 1952; photographs of Kwete Mwana’s relatives including wife, children, grandchildren, and carved pillars at entrance to Kwete Mwana’s residence; letters from Kwete Mwana to colonial administrators; photographs of scarification patterns on female torsos.