BAHAM

Description

This book, backup, interprets and promotes a significant set of about a hundred and fifty major major objects of cultural and artistic heritage of the kingdom of Baham. He proposes to give some visual reading keys and plural examples of works that are both cultural and historical witnesses of the ultimate messages of men of past and present laying the collective memory and Family the group but also memories of the past, intended to adapt to the present and the future. It unveils the rich, usage, meanings of these productions that combine aesthetic is, power, history, religion, myth and mystery. Faced with contemporary transformations of Baham, with the development of an urban center expansion, the construction of modern infrastructure, development of tourism and handicrafts, the establishment of a dynamic and living museum was needed to preserving and enhancing the cultural and local artistic heritage, to ensure, among other cultural continuity smoothly allowing the individual to live in harmony with their environment. Apart from a few pieces recently acquired by kings and notables of the post-colonial era to enlarge or restore their treasures include authenticated specimens, often of great value, which almost miraculously escaped the traffickers of African art, and more particularly looting and destruction in the twentieth century, a large part of Baham artistic heritage.