About the Author

Anne-Marie Bouttiaux is chief curator of the Ethnography Department at the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. John Mack has written extensively on African art and on art as a world-wide phenomenon. His most recent book is The Art of Small Things. Frieda Sorber, the curator of the Provincial Museum of Costume and Textiles in Antwerp, has written several books on the textile traditions of Morocco and the Near and Far East, including Asian Costumes and Textiles. Anne van Cutsem-Vanderstraete is an art historian and the author of several publications on ethnic costume in the Ghysels Collection.