Art of the Lega

Congolese culture

by Laura Bien

posted 12/1/2004

Leopard's-tooth jewelry, elegant plumes of elephant hair, and a scaly hat made of the skin of a pangolin — an animal suggesting a cross between a giant tadpole and a pineapple — draw the eye of a visitor to the U-M Museum of Art's Art of the Lega exhibit.

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