BELGIUM COLLECTS AFRICAN ART
Brussels: 2000. 352 pages (text in English and French), 330 full-page, half-page, and quater-page color photographs of objects, 6 other color and b/w photographs. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
CAMEROON: Arts and Ethnology
A small group of out of print, scarce publications on the traditional arts and ethnology of the Cameroon peoples.
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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
BANGWA FUNERARY SCULPTURE.
Toronto: 1971. 148 pages, 67 b/w and 21 color photographs, 46 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. The magnificent Bangwa masks and figures are presented in great detail in this important volume that illustrates many of the sculptural masterpieces produced by this Cameroon people. The masks and figures owned by the..... 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
CRAFTS AND THE ARTS OF LIVING IN THE CAMEROON
Baton Rouge: 1982. 160 pages, 79 photographs, mostly full-page. Cloth cover. In the isolated villages of the Cameroon, unique crafts are practiced today as they have been for many decades. Full color field photographs illustrate the remarkable artistry found in the "everyday" crafts created by Cameroon artisans from Pygmy villages..... More
THE ART OF CAMEROON
Portland: 1979. 392 pages, photographs of over 300 objects. Cloth cover with dust jacket, mint condition. Though most certainly'...not a complete account of the peoples of the Cameroon," it would be difficult to publish a volume more comprehensive than this. The complete catalogues of the Gebauer Collection of Cameroon Art..... More
DEVINETTES PEULES.Suivies de Quelquos Proberbes et Exemples d'Argots (Nord-Cameroun).
Paris: 1972. 71 pages. 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
THE ART OF CAMEROON
Smithsonian Institution, 1984. 207 pages, 30 pages of color photographs, 15 large b/w photographs, 32 field photographs, 2 full-page maps. The first comprehensive exhibition of the art of Cameroon to be held in the United States (at the Smithsonian Institution) has produced this stuning catalogue of that dazzling exhibition. Masterpieces--in..... More
THE SIGN OF THE LEOPARD. Beaded Art of Cameroon
Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, 1973. 136 pages, 186 b/w and 4 color photographs. This catalogue accompanied an illuminating exhibition of Cameroon beadwork, most of it loaned by the distinguished Linden-Mu8seum, Stuttgart, and most of it collected prior to 1914. Detailed information is given for each object, including the..... 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
DIE BAJA. Ein Negerstamm im Mittlern Sudan.
1973 (reprint). Vol. I: Materielle und Seelische Kultur. xii 244 pages of text, plus 40 pages of photographs and drawings and 1 fold-out map. Vol. II: Geistige Kultur. v, 182 pages of text, plus 10 pages of photographs and drawings. Cloth cover. Vol. I: Stuttgart, 1934, Vol. II: Stuttgart, 1927..... More
BEI DEN BERGHEIDEN IN NORD KAMERUN
Vienna: Oftmarken-Verlag, 1943. viii, 264 pages of text plus 109 pages of photographs and 1 double-page map. Cloth cover (worn). More
DIE MATERIELLE KULTUR DER NICHT-ISLAMISCHEN ETHNIEN VON NORDKAMERUN UND NORDOSTNIGERIA
Wiesbaden: 1977. 313 pages, 375 illustrations. This highly detailed volume surveys the material culture of the peoples of the Cameroons and Northern Nigeria. The approach, is most assuredly scholarly as the housing, household goods, tools, pottery, jewelry, clothing, weapons, musical instruments, and ritual magic materials for which this area is..... More
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