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FIG. 3 (right): Germaine Van
Parys (1893–1983), Interior
view of the home of Jeanne
Walschot. C. 1931.
© Germaine Van Parys –
GermaineImage.
Group of bowls and boxes with a Luba
double-headed cup in the center, the
latter now in the collection of the
Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale in
Tervuren.
FIG. 4 (right): Germaine Van
Parys (1893–1983), Interior
view of the home of Jeanne
Walschot. C. 1931.
© Germaine Van Parys –
GermaineImage.
Reconstruction (or recomposition)
in the Walschot home of an Nkanu
kikaku with carved and painted fi gural
panels in high relief.
FIG. 5 (facing page):
Germaine Van Parys (1893–
1983), Interior view of the
home of Jeanne Walschot.
C. 1931.
© Germaine Van Parys –
GermaineImage.
Fireplace mantel buried under
sculptures. The “equestrian” nkisi in
the center was sold by Walschot to
Clark and Frances Stillman and is now
in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
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