The Pangwe, Pahouin and other Fang groups in the nineteenth century
Equatorial Africa in the past
First contacts with the Fang in the nineteenth century
Fang villages and traditional lifestyle
Society, family and the individual
Value systems and social laws: Fang customs
Myths, beliefs and rites: spirits and ancestors
Ritual sculpture related to ancestor worship
A stylistic overview of Fang country in the nineteenth century
Styles and substyles in ancestral Fang statuary
The masks of initiation societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Mobile, decorative Fang art
Craftsmen and artists, inspired sculptors
Fang sculpture in a world of appearances.
