THE ART OF METAL IN AFRICA
New York: African-American Institute, 1982. 160 pages, 136 large b/w and 5 full-page color photographs, 6 maps. More
New York: African-American Institute, 1982. 160 pages, 136 large b/w and 5 full-page color photographs, 6 maps. More
Los Angeles: 1977. 244 pages, 401 b/w and 22 color photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover edition. Mint condition. A heavily illustrated compendium that served as the catalogue for a major exhibition at UCLA that presented a broad range of excellent examples of Ghanian art. An excellent text and wonderful photographs..... More
Milano, 2000. 297 pages, approximately 375 large color photographs, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. A stunning visual presentation of seldom presented African material culture, almost all of it 20th century and acquired relatively recently by the author. Wonderful examples of furniture, containers of all types, pottery, spoons, pipes..... More
Stockholm: Etnografiska Riksmuseet, 1925 & 1926. Deel I: (1925) 138 pages (5 page '"retrospect" in English), 67 photographs and drawings, principally of weapons and objects used in hunting animals and birds--in central and eastern Africa, 2 maps. Lacking front wrapper, spine reinforced, otherwise very good. Deel II: (1926) 157 pages..... More
London: the British Museum, 1899. 136 pages, 185 photographs and 27 drawings. Hard board and cloth cover, folio size (14 3/4" x 19" 5/8). This extraordinary document, a scholarly and sumptuous volume, was first published in 1899 when the British were displaying the fruits of their punitive expedition. There is..... More
Brussels: 1984. 175 pages, 9 color and 256 b/w photographs, 1 map. The full range of material culture of the Mongo of west-central Zaire is presented in this thorough catalogue. The more than 250 illustrations are of weapons, shields, personal fetish figures, jewelry, musical instrumennts, baskets, gourds, neckrests, textiles, pestles..... More