THE NUBA OF KAU Anthropologists call them »South-East Nuba«. Although living just two hundred kilometres away from the peaceful and gentle Masaki Qisar Nuba they don't know each other, they speak a different language, they have different customs and conventions, and as far as their nature and character is concerned they are the exact opposite of the Masakin: wild and passionate. Their masks, knife bouts and love dances, their extravagant paints reminding of »living Picasso paintings« do not exist with any other primitive people on earth in this form and diversity. Leni Riefenstahl who in 1975 had spent sixteen weeks in a great heat among the Kau Nabu said: »It had been a time of almost unbearable difficulties and physical strain. Without the urge deeply rooted in me to chase after the unusual and beautiful those pictures would have never been made.«
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