MUMUYE SCULPTURE 139 persed subgroups who speak related languages and share broad patterns of culture has resulted in pronounced cultural differentiation,” both in stylistic and in contextual terms. In the end, the fi gures of the numerous Mumuye subgroups, like any other part of the sub-Saharan African continent, cannot be viewed separately from the people who made and used them. This essay derives from a new monograph devoted to the fi gurative sculpture of the Mumuye people of Nigeria published by 5 Continents Editions. The book is a revised and updated but summarized version of the M.A. thesis that Frank Herreman wrote for Ghent University, Belgium, in 1979. Herreman authored the new book’s main essays and is also responsible for the selection of artworks it contains. Constantine Petridis contributed essays on the contextual setting of the fi gures that are the publication’s focus of attention but also on the various mask types that have been recorded or collected among the Mumuye. REFERENCES CITED Berns, Marla, 1985. Exhibition review of Sculpture of Northeastern Nigeria, Mort Dimondstein Primitive Art, Los Angeles. African Arts 18, 4 (1985): 89–90. Berns, Marla, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefi eld Kasfi r (eds.), 2011. Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011. Fardon, Richard, 2011. “The Quick and the Dead: Versatile Wooden Figures from the Middle Benue.” In Berns, Fardon, and Kasfi r, Central Nigeria Unmasked, 230–83. Fry, Philip, 1970. “Essai sur la statuaire mumuye.” Objets et Mondes 10, 1 (1970): 3–28. Herreman, Frank, 1979. “Houtsculptuur bij de Mumuye in het Benue gebied, oostelijke deelstaat Gongola, Nigeria.” M.A. thesis, Ghent University, 1978–79. ———, 1985. De wenteling om de aslijn: Mumuyebeeldhouwwerken uit Nigeria. Exh. cat. Waasmunster, Belgium: Galerij van de Akademie, 1985. Moore, Henry, 1951. “Tribal Sculpture: A Review of the Exhibition at the Imperial Institute.” Man 51 (July 1951): 95–96. Rubin, Arnold G., 1978 “Standing Figure, Mumuye.” In Twenty-Five African Sculptures, edited by Jacqueline Fry, 105–8, exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, National Museums of Canada, 1978. ———, 1981. “Two Figures.” In For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, edited by Susan Mullin Vogel, 155–58, exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. Strybol, Jan, 1985. “Poterie domestique et poterie sacrée en pays mumuye.” Africa-Tervuren 31 (1985): 39–59. ———, 1997. “Les Mumuye.” In Arts du Nigeria. Collection du musée des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, edited by Frank Willett and Ekpo Eyo, 235–40, exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997. ———, 2013. From Yelwa to Yola: Sculpture of Northern Nigeria. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2013.
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