Heroic Africans legendary leaders, iconic sculptures /.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011Description: 298 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300175844 (hc: yale university press)
  • 9781588394323 (hc: the metropolitan museum of art)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Visual poems in praise of an ever-present past: Ife terracottas -- Pageantry and ritual: the Akan -- Dancing figures and effigy thrones: Grassfield chiefdoms -- The golden age of Shyáám and beyond: the Kuba -- Of hunter princes and cherished maidens: the Chokwe and Luluwa -- Sublime chiefs and the persistence of memory: the Hemba.
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book Knowledge Management & Collection Management 122.010 Coll Available 8368926-10
book Library of Ethnography 122.454 E Available 8368926-20

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, at later dates.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual poems in praise of an ever-present past: Ife terracottas -- Pageantry and ritual: the Akan -- Dancing figures and effigy thrones: Grassfield chiefdoms -- The golden age of Shyáám and beyond: the Kuba -- Of hunter princes and cherished maidens: the Chokwe and Luluwa -- Sublime chiefs and the persistence of memory: the Hemba.