The Ethnographic Collection of the MRAC contains some 120 statuettes which in the fact of the inferior course of the Congo were posted on the tombs of important infants. They are called ntadi, a term that returns & agrave; the tender stone in which they have TAILLE. Most of these R & Eacute statuettes; a number of types of types which correspond & agrave; The symbolic reproduction of the festive characteristics with which the chiefs, the notables and the trades were readily associated. It is therefore not active in the nature, but rather than the mansions of which the sponsors wanted to continue & agrave; Living in the Moires.

a significant number was collecting & eacute; During the years 1950 by the amateur ethnologist Robert Verly who supposed that they were part of a tradition. A more in -depth examination, however, has been based on that their manufacture could be the gross -up between 1850 and 1930. This co & igl; Congo. The chiefs and the merchants enjoyed the great considering from the various European products, of which they made the acquisition in the change of palm nuts and ivory. They loved it; to be presented as proprietary authoritarian ownerships, but also like & lsquo; men of their time & rrs; which appropriated new skills, such as reading. & nbsp;

the first first of these Fun & Eacute; A statuette & eacute directly on site in the tender stone to simplify transport to the workshop o & ugrave; The finishing work On the basis of stylistic examination, we assume that around twenty workshops have been; assets. The stone is working with a doloire and a knife, as for wood sculpture. & Nbsp;

competition between the workshops is & agrave; The origin of the richness of the thumbnails. Some of these are in other words, which indicates that the sculptors had to adapt to the wishes of their potential customers. Among the best-sellers ', it is necessary to cite the representations of the & lsquo; This last is probably the representation of someone who is capable of reading documents, a new ability that aroused a great idle