Upload    3/11/23  Addition 7/1/24

August 1st, I put online three article based on an essay of Luc de Heusch – after the Migrations and Colonial history of the Tetela (LINK, deutsch) and Magic Figures of the Jonga (LINK, deutsch) and the “pseudo-Tetela Masks” (de Heusch) from the northern border of the Songye settlement  (LINK, deutsch). I will not translate them, because the underlying article was published in English: “Beauty is elsewhere: Returning a verdict on Tetela masks, Historical and ethnological notes on the Nkutshu“, in “Objects – Signs of Africa, Selected and edited by Luc de Heusch on the occasion of the “Hidden Treasures”, exhibition at the Musée de l’Afrique centrale Tervuren, Belgium pp.175 -204.

The text of de Heusch is as complex as its title, and I have taken my translation as opportunity to regroup it according to the needs of presumably interested art collectors.

The English version here focuses on the comparison of four masks in my collection and additional pieces >>