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Fang
Population: 800,000
Language: Equatorial Bantu
Neighboring Peoples: Kwele, Lumbu, Teke
Location: Southern Gabon, Cameroon, Africa
Types of Art
There are a few in collections that are still attached to the original relics they were meant to protect.
The Fang are best known for their wooden reliquary figures which are abstract anthropomorphic carvings.
History
The Fang migrated into their curren area from the northeast in recent centuries as small groups or families of nomadic agriculturalists. Their army nature allowed them to sieze land from their weaker neighbors.
Location: Southern Gabon, Cameroon, Africa
Housing
Economy: The rain forests surrounding the Fang must be subjected to slash and burn techniques, combined with crop rotation to yield agricultural products. By moving crops from year to year, erosion and soil depletion is avoided. The main crops grown are plantains and manioc. Large knives are used to clear the forests, and most of the cultivation is done with a hoe.
Religion
The traditional religion of Fang centered around ancestors who are believed to wield power in the afterlife. The skulls and long bones of these men were believed to retain power and to have control over the well-being of the family. Usually the relics were kept hidden away from uninitiated and women. Wooden sculptures were attached to the boxes containing the bones. Some believe that the figures are an abstract portrait of the deceased individual, while others argue that they serve to protect the spirit of the deceased from evil. It must be remembered that it was the bones themselves that were sacred, not the wooden figures. During migrations the relics were brought along, but the reliquaries were often left behind.
Masks
http://www.africantribalmusic.net/african-history/fang-african-tribepeople
Population:
800,000
Fang African Tribe
Location:
Souther Gabon, Cameroon
History
Language:
Equatorial Bantu
Fang migrated into their current area from the northeast in earlier centuries as small groups or families of nomadic agriculturalists. Their warriors siezed land from weaker neighbors
based on clan with a common ancestor
a cult devoted to ancestor lineages
the bieri is the leader in the village its a sculpture but it lost its sacredness after
Pride them self in physical beauty
Housing
They are principally hunters but also agriculturists. Their social structure is based on a clan, a group of individuals with a common ancestor. The ensemble of Fang peoples practice a cult devoted to ancestor lineages, the bieri, whose aim is to both protect themselves from the deceased and to recruit and aid in matters of daily life. This familial cult does not monopolize the Fang’s religious universe, for it coexists with other beliefs and rituals of a more collective character.
The bieri, gave rise to remarkable wooden sculpture. The bieri, or ancestor figure, would be consulted when the village was to change location, or when a new crop was planted, during a palaver, or before going hunting, fishing, or to war. But once separated from the reliquary chest, the sculpted object would lose its sacred value and could be destroyed. The ritual consisted of prayers, libations, and sacrifices offered to the ancestor, whose scull would be rubbed with powder and paint each time. With its large head, long body, and short extremities, the Fang bieri had the proportion of a newborn, thus emphasizing the group’s continuity with its ancestor and with the three classes of the society: the “not-yet-born,” the living, and the dead. The relics were essentially skull fragments, or sometimes complete skulls, jawbones, teeth and small bones. The bieri also served for therapeutic rituals and, above all, for the initiation of young males during the great so festival.
lived in in bark houses
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Fang.html
arragned in patterns against straight streets
http://www.africantribalmusic.net/african-history/fang-african-tribepeople
elephant hunting to provide ivory for the traders.
Hey sam in the paragraph i thought it had some good stuff about there history and go to the web site the link thing it has pictures and 2 vidoes of there ritual dances and also when you type into google type The African Fang Tribe its gets you alot more