Crown and Ritual: The Royal Insignia of Ngoyo

by Zdenka Volavka

One day, more than twenty years ago, Zdenka Volavka found a lost treasure: the investiture regalia of the African kingdom of Ngoyo, dating from the Iron Age of the second millennium. The plaited copper crown or mpu, turned upside-down and filled with a jumble of metal objects, was on display in the MusTe de l'Homme in Paris, ignominiously labelled as a 'fishing basket.' These objects became the focus of Volavka's research in her remaining years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802042279
• ISBN13: 9780802042279
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher