Zachary Kingdon

Biographic Data

ID5155975
NAMEZachary Kingdon
GIVEN NAMESZachary
FAMILY NAMEKingdon
SIGNATUREKINGDON Z
AFFILIATIONSNational Museums Scotland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Eastern African migrant ‘modernism

    Zachary KingdonARTICLEWorld Art2026References: 16

    Early narratives on Makonde blackwood sculpture were generally uninformed and led to the output of this multifaceted eastern African creative movement being relegated to categories such as ‘tourist souvenirs’ or ‘airport art’ and disregarded by western art institutions. In order to counter the persistent legacy of those commentaries, this article outlines a historically informed narrative for the development of the Makonde blackwood sculpting mov…

  • African Collections in Scottish Museums

    Open AccessJohn Giblin, John D Giblin et al.ARTICLEMuseum Worlds2025

    The colonial-era extraction of cultural belongings and treasures from the continent of Africa by colonial agents contributed to the globalization of African material cultures. Through the actions of traders, mariners, missionaries, soldiers, engineers, administrators, their families, and others associated with colonization, huge quantities of African material culture entered global circulation, eventually being amassed in private and public colle…

  • Nouveaux départs ? Écrire l’histoire de l’art par ses déplacements

    Open AccessArnaud Bertinet, Felicity Bodenstein et al.ARTICLEPerspective2022

    Depuis une dizaine d’années, on observe un glissement dans l’historiographie française des institutions culturelles et dans les études sur la vie sociale et culturelle des œuvres. Dans le cadre d’une histoire classique des collections, qui perçoit l’artefact surtout à travers la formation des collections privées et publiques, des logiques de présentation ou de muséographie, la perspective qui partait en quelque sorte du point d’arrivée (le lieu d…

  • Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa

    Zachary Kingdon, Kathryn Brown et al.BOOKEthnographic Collecting and…2019

    The early collections from Africa in Liverpool’s World Museum reflect the city’s longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa’s Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard’s collecting efforts can be seen to ha…

  • Subtracting the Narrative

    Open AccessZachary KingdonARTICLEMuseum Worlds2015

    Museums can be theorized as sites of forgetting. Furthermore, British traders who collected carved tusks made by Kongo-speaking peoples of the Central African coast in the nineteenth century appear to have had no interest in accounting for the complex narrative scenes that embellished these works. Recent scholarship advocates applying an “archaeological sensibility” (Harrison 2013) that conceptualizes museum collections as “assemblages” in order …

  • The Queen as an Aku Woman

    Zachary KingdonARTICLEAfrican Arts2014References: 6

    September 01 2014 The Queen as an Aku Woman?: Reassessing “Yoruba” Queen Victoria Portrait Figures Zachary Kingdon Zachary Kingdon Zachary Kingdon is Curator of African Collections at the World Museum Liverpool. He curated the African displays at the museum and is currently writing up research on West African contributors to the museum's African collection. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…

  • Sculpture and Identity

    Zachary KingdonCHAPTERCarving Out a Future2013

    The Makonde of Mueda plateau in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, possessed one of the richest woodcarving traditions in Eastern Africa, and even appear to have made finely decorated wooden medicine boxes that were traded along the local trade networks of the lower Rovuma River. However, the woodcarvers who made them never carved full time. Patronage by external ethnic groups has often been a significant factor in the history of African sculptur…

  • A Host of Devils

    Zachary KingdonBOOKHost of Devils2013Cited by: 3

    A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique.The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within which spirits function as a format for expression. The book describes the ways in which the sculpture emerged, as well as the author's experience of le…

  • Chanuo Maundu

    Zachary KingdonARTICLEAfrican Arts1996Cited by: 4

    Presentation de la vie et de l'œuvre de Chanuo Maundu, scultpeur Makonde originaire du Mozambique ayant migre a la fin des annees 50 vers la Tanzanie. Pendant 35 ans il sculpta des centaines d'œuvres en bois noir (Dalgbergia melanoxylon). Il fut un sculpteur accompli dans les trois styles de sculpture communement appelees binadamu (themes et figurines humaines naturels), ujamaa (œuvres composites composees d'une multitude de figures humaines liee…