In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon  presents some of the finest pieces from the African art collection of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon. Approximately 120 pieces from Western, Central, and Southern Africa, with emphasis upon those from Guinea Bissau and Angola, both former Portuguese colonies, many rarely seen before in the U.S., reveal the rich variety and sculptural inventiveness of these cultures and allows for an examination of their spiritual practices.

Exhibition catalogue edited by Frank Herreman with extended captions by Elze Bruyninx, William J. Dewey, Mary Nooter Roberts, and Frederick Lamp; and contributions: Embodied Futures: The Dolls of Southwestern Angola by Elisabeth Cameron, The Bidjogo Peoples of Guinea Bissau by Danielle Gallois-Duquette, The Matapa and Kongo Kasai or Kongo-Dinga Peoples and The Arts of the Chokwe and Related Peoples by Manuel Jordán, Masks from the Lands of Dawn: The Ngangela Peoples by Gerhard Kubik, The Kongo Peoples by Wyatt McGaffey,  The Initiation Arts of the Zombo, Nkanu, Yaka and Suku Peoples by Annemieke Van Damme. Published by the Museum for African Art and Snoeck, Ducaju, and Zoon, Ghent, September 2000. 196 pp. English: Cloth: ISBN 0-945802-28-5, Paper: ISBN 0-945802-27-7. LCCN: 00-106199. Portuguese: Cloth: ISBN 0-945802-30-7, Paper: ISBN 0-945802-29-3. LCCN: 00-106695.