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ARTS D'AFRIQUE NOIRE No. 27
Automne: 1978. More
(Auction Catalogue 3) THE HARRY A. FRANKLIN COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART
New York: SOTHEBY'S, April 21, 1990. 260 pages, 431 lots auc-tioned, 430 lots illustrated in color photographs. Cloth cover. Price list included. More
CATALOGUE SYSTEMATIQUE DE LA SECTION AFRIQUE
Boston: 1970. Two volumes. 18,900 cards, 903 pages. Cloth covers. Ciassified Catalog of the Africa Section. The African section of the Library of the Musee de l'Homme consists of approximately 8,000 titles, the bulk of which are in the field of ethnology. The library, one of the oldest and most... More
ARTE IN AFRICA. Reality and Perspectives in a Study of the History of African Arts
Modena: 1986. 107 pages (27 papers presented at a conference held in 1984 by the Center of Studies of the History of African Art), 178 photographs. More
COSTUMES OF MOROCCO
London & New York: 1990 (first published in French in 1988). 205 pages, 60 full page color plates (drawings) of people (in the 1930s) dressed in indigenous costume, 10 pages of b/w drawings of clothing and jewlery, 1 map. Cloth cover, with dust jacket, 10 1/2" x 14". Mint conditon. More
THE ARTS OF ZAIRE. Volume I. Southwestern Zaire; Volume II. Eastern Zaire
Berkeley: 1985. Vol. I. xii, 313 pages of text plus 40 pages of photographs: Vol. II. xiii, 314 pages of text containing 1 color and 5 b/w photographs and 10 diagrams, plus 32 pages of photographs. Cloth covers. The first volume in a projected five volume comprehensive study of the... More
BIBLIOGRAPHIE ETHNOGRAPHIQUE, Du Congo Belge et des Regions Avoisinantes, 1958
Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale.Tervuren: 1960. 358 pages. More
LES BAYAKA DE M'NENE N'TOOMBO LENGE-LENGE
Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 5. St. Augustin: 1975. 328 pages, 3 pages of photographs, 8 maps. More
ARTS CONNUS ET ARTS MECONNUS DE L'AFRIQUE NOIRE. Collection Paul Tishman
Paris: Musee de l'Homme, 1966. 150 pages, 55 full-page photographs. Spine reinforced. More
AFRICAN TRIBAL IMAGES, The Katherine White Reswick Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art: 1968. 155 pages, 283 photographs. Soft cover, front an rear covers reinforced. More
MWANA HITI. LIFE AND ART OF THE MATRILINEAL BANTU OF TANZANIA.
Munich: 1990. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. 505 pages, text in English and German, 481 photographs, 8 drawings, 3 figures, 12 maps. Cloth cover, new unopened copy. The first treatise on the mwana hiti, the wooden, highly stylized torso of a female figure, this important volume accompanied a major 1990... More
BAMBARA SCULPTURE FROM THE WESTERN SUDAN
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1960. 64 pages, 112 photographs, 1 map. Hard board cover with dust jacket. In 1960 the Museum of Primitive Art presented an exhibition of Bambara art--the first comprehensive showing ever of the art of this people. Many of the objects in the exhibition had... More
ANTHROPOMETRY OF THE OVIMBUNDU ANGOLA
Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. XXV, No. 2: 1938. Pp. 27-79 of text (containing 8 figures) followed by 20 pages of photographs and 10 pages of drawings. More
SERPENT WORSHIP IN AFRICA; Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. XXI, No. 1
1931. 85 pages of text, plus 8 leaves of photographs. Inscription by author. Cover slightly worn, otherwise fine. More
ARTS ANCIENS DU CAMEROUN
Arnouville: 1986. 374 pages, 35 color and 371 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. The classic, royal art of the tribes of Cameroon is extensively discussed (in the French text) and illustrated in the volume that concentrates solely on objects made for royal lineage rituals and ceremonies The royal arts... More
ETHNOGRAPHISCHE ZEICHNUNGEN DER LWIMBI/NGANGELA (ZENTRAL-ANGOLA)
Weisbaden: 1988. 138 pages, 172 drawings of several hundred objects of material culture, 2 b/w photographs, 4 pages of color drawings, 2 maps. More
THE KONGO II
Studia Ethnographica Up-saliensia, VIII: 1957. 172 pages (many uncut), 38 pages of drawings of objects and 2 full-page photographs of objects. Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint condition. Volume II examines the family, law and social organization. More
LES SANZA DU CONGO
Koninklijk Museum Voor Midden Afrika, Neiuwerke Reeks, No. 3, Tervuren: 1962. Two volumes. Vol. 1: 248 pages, 14 photographs, 57 drawings, 427 graphs. Vol. 2: 96 pages, 467 photographs, 4 maps. A new and unopened set. The "sanza", the musical instrument with intricately carved designs and patterns that has been... More
LES TAMBOURS A FENTE DE L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE. Vol. I
Tervuren: Museum for Central Africa, 1968. 58 pages, 313 photographs of slit drums, 3 maps. Small folio size, 10 1/2"x12" New and unopened copy. More
THE TANALA, A Hill Tribe of Madagascar
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XXII, 1933: 1962, 2nd printing. 334 pages, 35 pages of figures, illustrating 258 objects of material culture. The Tanala, occupants of a wooded and mountainous region in the southern third of the eastern part of Madagascar, had, at the time of this more than sixty... More
BAESLER-ARCHIV, Band XV
Berlin, 1931: New York, 1968 (reprint). 183 pages. Cloth cover. Tchokwe masks and art (by H. Baumann, 54 pages, 40 ills.) and North American Indian peyote cults (80 pages, 9 ills.) are the subjects of the two principal papers in this out of print volume. The other papers deal with... More
TABWA. The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art.
Ann Arbor: 1985. xvi, 288 pages, 15 color and 401 b/w photographs, 16 drawings, 2 maps. A superb catalogue raisonne of more than 400 Tabwa objects in collecitons outside of Africa. It would be difficult to overpraise this superb study of the art of Tabwa of Central Africa. A catalogue... More
DIE RELIGIONEN DER AFRIKANER IN IHREM ZUSSAMMENHANG MIT DEM WIRTSCHAFTSLEBEN
Oslo: 1920. 96 pages of text plus 6 leaves of photographs. Later marbled and leather boards over original wrappers. More
STATUAIRE FAN GABON; Memoires O.R.S.T.O.M. No. 59
Paris: 1972. 420 pages, 198 photographs, 277 drawings. Fine condition. Louis Perrois' major work analyzing 272 Fang reliquary figures was a massive undertaking and resulted in almost universal agreement that this was one of the most important volumes to have been published on African art. Extensive data are provided for... More