In The Art of Western Africa we surveyed briefly, from west to east, some of the principal art styles of the great West African area which stretches from Senegal to the Grasslands of Cameroon, stopping short of the Sanaga River. The Sanaga, flowing into the Gulf of Guinea near Duala, provides a convenient boundary between the two great halves of the sculpture-producing area of Africa associated respectively with the Niger and Congo river systems. And in terms of art, the division is a real and not merely an arbitrary one, since the Sanaga Valley forms a " no man's land " from which (except near its mouth) little or no art has been reported. We can now proceed to examine some of the Congo styles.