Southern Kuba Initiation Rites: The Ephemeral Face of Power and Secrecy

Independent Scholar whose Doctoral Research was on Kuba masking traditions associated with initiation rituals. He was Chief Curator and Senior Curator for Research and Interpretation at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. He was also Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and Research Associate Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. dabinkley@verizon.net