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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 3455258, member: 301&quot;]It is not widely known that, in the first half of the 20th century, Belgian missionaries of the Order of Saint Francis gathered important data on Chokwe peoples, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This article discusses a selection of mostly unpublished field photographs of Chokwe masks, made by Father Marchai in the village of Sandoa, Katanga Province, in 1948. After a brief history of Franciscan missionary activity in the former Belgian Congo, an attempt is made to identify the different mask characters shown in Marchai&#039;s photographs. The central section of the article examines a detailed report by Marchai&#039;s fellow missionary Father Borgonjon on a Chokwe initiation ritual for adolescent boys, which constitutes an important context for masking. The conclusion addresses some methodological questions in relation to the use of missionary photographs as anthropological and art historical documents.</p><p><br /></p><p>but it wasn&#039;t the boys who wore the masks..........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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