AFRICAN ARTS MAGAZINE: A Quarterly Journal, Vol. 05, #2
Winter, 1972. More
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BLACK KINGDOMS, BLACK PEOPLE
London: 1979. 128 pages, 126 color photographs. Cloth cover. More
KINGS OF AFRICA. Art and Authority in Central Africa. Collection Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin
Maastricht: 1992. 327 pages (10 papers), 210 pages of color photographs of 190 objects plus an additional 4 pages of color and 3 pages of b/w photographs, 6 maps. Cloth cover, small folio size (9 1/2"x12"). Central Africa, principally occupied by peoples speaking Bantu related languages, for centuries shared common..... More
LEGA, ETHICS AND BEAUTY IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
Brussels: KBC Gallery, 2002. 239 pages, 179 large color photographs, 27 b/w and 1 color photographic figures, 1 map. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
OBJECTS. Signs of Africa
No city (probably in Belgium): n.d. (probably 1995). 213 pages, 84 color and 40 b/w photographs, 17 drawings, 11 maps, 3 plans and charts. Cloth cover. Nine essays by European and African ethnographers examine the art of Central Africa, Cameroon, and West Africa from the perspectives of the African societies..... More
BATEKE. Peintres et Sculpteurs d’Afrique Centrale
Paris: 1998. (exhibition catalogue, Musee National des Arts d’Afrique, Paris, 1998). 303 pages, 309 color and b/w photographs, 2 maps. A wonderful exhibition of Bateke art (from both the Congo and Gabon) drawn from major museum collections in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden--acquired by missionaries at the..... 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
DIE SCHWARZE DEKAMERON. Liehe, Witz und Heldentum in Innerafrika.
Berlin: 1910. 390 pages of text plus 24 leaves of drawings and photographs of peoples and structures in North Africa, Niger, and Mali. Leather and marbled boards. More
TWENTY-FIVE AFRICAN SCULPTURES
Ottawa: 1978. 192 pages, 109 photographs--mostly full-page--of 25 sub-Saharan sculptural masterpieces from Canadian collections. Text in English and French. Cloth cover. More
SERPENT WORSHIP IN AFRICA
Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. XXI, No. 1: 1931. 85 pages of text (some uncut), plus 8 leaves of photographs. Fine-mint condition. More
THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE. (two volumes).
Neuchatel and London: 1912 (Vol. I) and 1913 (Vol II). Vol. I: "The Social Life". 500 pages, 52 photographs, 1 color map. Vol. II: "The Psychic Life". 574 pages, 60 photographs. Decorated green cloth covers. The anthropologist, E.W. SMITH, called this, "...the finest monograph written on any African tribe" More
FETICHES A CLOUS DU BAS-ZAIRE
Paris: 1980. 264 pages, 142 photographs--mostly full-page of nail fetishes, 3 pages of drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 800 copies. Mint condition with dust jacket. This volume, limited to a printing of 800 copies, is the major work available on nail fetishes. Given the prices of such..... 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
DIE BENIN-SAMMLUNG DES REICHSMUSEUM FUR VOLKERKUNDE IN LEIDEN. Beschrieben und mit Ausfuhrlichen. Prolegomena zur Geschichte der Handelswege und Volkerbewegungen in Nordafrika
E.J. Brill, Leiden: 1913. 16, ccclxvii, 132 pages containing 27 drawings and small photographs, plus 14 leaves of photographs, 1 fold-out map. 10 1/2"x13". Because of the weight and size of this massive volume, additional shipping and handlilng charges may apply. $1250.00 PRICE REDUCED TO $675 until January 1, 2017. One..... More
A VIEW OF SIERRA LEONE
New York: 1927. xi, 351 pages, 8 pages of photographs, 7 drawings, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
THE BANTU PAST AND PRESENT. An Ethnographical & Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa
Edinburgh: 1920. xix, 398 pages, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
THE ARTS OF THE BENUE, To the Roots of Tradition
Ottignies: 1985. 216 pages, 60 color and 153 b/w photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. The illustrated objects, few of which have been previously published, are drawn from among the most important museum and private collections in the world. More
ANCESTRAL ART OF GABON, From the Collections of the Barbier-Muller Museum
Geneva: 1985. 238 pages, 101 color and 66 b/w photographs, 5 color and 72 b/w drawings. 7 maps. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Fine condition. A truly beautiful book with striking illustrations and an excellent text, this volume that served as a catalogue for the exhibition of the Barbier-Mueler Museum's..... More
LES ROIS SCULPTEURS. Legs Pierre Harter. Art et Pouvoir dans le Grass-land Camerounais
Paris: Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et de Oceanie, 1993. 223 pages, 25 color and 112 b/w photographs, 2 drawings. Mint condition. The legacy of medical missionary (also ethnologist and art historian) Dr. Pierre Harter, was exhibited in 1993 at the Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie in Paris..... More
ART OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA: THE FANG TRIBES.
New York & Barcelona: 1990. 177 pages, 26 color and 36 b/w photographs, 42 drawings, 5 maps. Cloth cover. This was the first major volume in English on the art and culture of the Fang, written by the leading authority on the art of this people and by a Spanish..... More
TOGU NA--THE AFRICAN DOGON
Milan, 1976: New York, 1977. 200 pages, 290 large photographs--many full-page. Cloth cover. This valuable volume presents an important and fascinating pictorial study not only of the togu na--the men's meeting houses in which the elders of each Dogon village perform their religous ceremonies--but of Dogon communal existence and of..... More
CLOSEUP. Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture
New York: Center for African Art, 1990. 194 pages, 123 color and 62 b/w photographs, 1 map. cloth ed. More
AFRICAN ART IN MOTION
UCLA and National Gallery of Art, 1974. 276 pages, 275 b/w and 10 color photographs, 1 map. Cloth ed. More
TABWA
Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale: 1986. 101 pages, 81 half and full-page photographs. Mint condition. A complement to the seminal 1985 Tabwa catalogue, Tabwa, the Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, this catalogue of the Tabwa collection of the Royal Museum of Central Africa adds one..... More
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