Author: RIEFENSTAHL, LENI
Title: The People of Kau
Description: London, William Collins Sons & Co. 1976, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0002165600). Hardcover, Folio - over 12. Book, The book is in excellent condition, includes the dust jacket and is signed by Leni Riefenstahl. The People of Kau is the title of the 1976 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Die Nuba von Kau, an illustrated book, published in the same year in Germany. This is a photographic monograph on the life of the people of Kau in the southern part of Sudan. Riefenstahl spent 16 weeks with the Nuba of Kau in 1975. The Nuba of Kau live only 100 miles away from the Mesakin Nuba, yet they speak another language, follow different customs, and are said to be very different in character and temperament. Their knife-fights, dances of love and elaborately painted faces and bodies are represented in the book. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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