Wood Sculpture
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Adams, Monni. "Eighteenth-Century Kuba King Figures." African Arts (Los Angeles) 21, no. 3 (1988): pp. 32-38, 88.
Adams, Monni. "Women and Masks Among the Western We of Ivory Coast." African Arts 19, no. 2 (1986): pp. 46-55.
Afrikanische Skulpture: die Erfindung der Figur/African Sculpture: The Invention of the Figure. Cologne: Museum
Ludwig, 1990. [Reviewed in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 65, 67; exhibition reviewed by
Raoul Lehuard in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 11-12; reviewed by M. Vajman in Primitifs:
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Afuba, Chris. Tangled, the Dirge of Depleted Woods: Wood and Metal Sculpture: NDF, Lekki Conservation Centre,
Lagos. Lagos: British Council and the Nigerian Conservation Society, 1992.
Alamu, Akin. From Dreamland: Exhibition 1992. Lagos: Russian Cultural Centre, 1992.
Aremu, P. S. O. "Textile-like Patterns on Yoruba Carvings." Nigerian Field (Ibadan) 47 (1982): pp. 18-22.
Aremu, P. S. O. "Textile-like Patterns on Yoruba Carvings," in Yoruba Culture, pp. 22-26. Ibadan: Nigerian Field Society, Ibadan Branch, 1992.
Barley, Nigel. "The Linguistic Image in the Interpretation of African Objects." African Languages and Cultures 1, no. 2 (1988): pp. 93-105.
Bassani, Ezio. "The Ulm Opon Ifa (ca. 1650): A Model for Later Iconography," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 79-89. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Boavida, Isabel. "The Cross Brought to Goa and Portugal by Libnä Dingil's Envoy Mathew," in The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999) edited by Manuel João Ramos and Isabel Boadvida, pp. 146-151. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
Bonew, Alexis. “Tête gravide, vase capital, ventre à musique...: La clé dans un mortier; un point d’analyse componentielle à propos d’un monument de l’art luluwa,” in De l’art nègre à l’art africain: l’évolution de la connaissance de l’art africain des années trente à aujourd’hui, pp. 122-126. Arnouville: Collection Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1990.
Bridges, Nichole. "Inside-Out: Duality and Multiplicity in a Sango Priestess Figure." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin/Biennial Report 1999-2001 (Madison) (2002): pp. 55-9.
Brain, Robert and Adam Pollock. Bangwa Funerary Sculpture. Art and Society Series. London: Duckworth, 1972.
See Clarke. "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection." .
Damme-Linseele, Annemieke Van. "Nkanu and Mbeko Art and Ritual." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 12-23, 90.
Dewey, W.J. "Shona Ritual Axes." Insight 85, no. 1 (1985): pp. 1-5.
See Essomba. L'Art traditionnel au Cameroun: statues et masques.
Fernandez, James W. and Renate L. Fernandez. “Fang Reliquary Art: Its Quantities and Qualities.” Cahiers d’études africaines (Paris) 60, XV-4 (1976): pp. 723-746.
Flam, Jack D. "Some aspects of style symbolism in Sudanese sculpture." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 137-150.
Ganay, Solange de. "Une statuette d'ancêtre." Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 54, no. 1 (1984): pp. 120-4.
Gardi, B. Zaire Masken Figuren. Basel: Museum fürVolkerkunde und Schweizerische Museum für Volkskunde, 1986.
Glaze, A.J. "Dialectics of Gender in Senufo Masquerades." African Arts 19, no. 3 (1986): pp. 30-9.
Grottanelli, Vingi L. "Somali Wood Engravings," in African Arts (Los Angeles) 1, no. 3 (Spring 1968): pp. 8-13, 72-73, 96.
Grottanelli, Vingi L. "Somali Wood Engravings," in Family and Work in Rural Societies: Perspectives on Non-Wage Labour edited by N. Long, pp. 97-104. London: Tavistock, 1984.
Grunne, Bernard de. "La statuaire fang: Une forme d'art classique?" Tribal Arts (Paris) 2 (1994): pp. 47-56.
Hart, W. A. "Sculptures of the Njayei Society Among the Mende." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3
(July 1993): pp. 46-53, 86.
Harter, Pierre. "Geste et sculpture anthropolomorphe dans l'ouest camerounais," in De l'art nègre à l'art africain: L'évolution de la connaissance de l'art africain des années trente à aujourd'hui, pp. 41-46. Arnouville, France: Collection Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1990.
Hecht, Elisabeth-Dorothea. "The Hand-Cross Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies: A Project Report," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 115-120. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
Himmelheber, Hans. Negerkünstler. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1935. [Reviewed by Charles Ratton, review available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 5, no. 2 (1935): p. 259.]
Juel-Jensen, Bent. "The Evolution of the Ethiopian Cross," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 17-27. London: Jed Press, 1993.
Laburthe-Tolra, Philippe and Christaine Falgayrette-Leveau. Fang. Paris: Musée Dapper, 1991.
Lamp, F. "The Art of the Baga: A Preliminary Inquiry." African Arts 19, no. 2 (1986): pp. 64-7.
Lintig, Bettina von. Die bildende Kunst der Bangwa : Werkstatt-Traditionen und Künstlerhandschriften. Munster: Akademischer Verlag, 1994.
"Mbezele Solo Aloys," in Anthologie de l'art africaine du XXe siècle edited by N'Goné Fall and Jean Loup Pivin, pp. 143. Paris: Editions Revue Noire, 2001.
McCall, D. "A Lobi Woodcarving." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 77-9.
Moore, Eine. "Ethiopian Crosses from the 12th to the 16th Century," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 110-114. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
Musa, Daniel Kanjo. Nso' Traditional Sculpture: An Interpretation of Motifs. Kumbo Nso', Cameroon: Musa Heritage Gallery, 1996.
Obi, Amanze. "Fleeting Moments of Fantasy." Guardian (Lagos) (Sept. 27, 1992): p. B7.
Peek, P.M. "The Isoko Ethos of Ivri." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 42-7.
Perrois, Louis. Arts ancestral du Gabon. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1985.
Perrois, Louis. Arts du Gabon. Arnouville, France: Editions Arts d’Afrique, 1979.
Perrois, Louis. Byeri Fang : Sculptures d’ancêtres en Afrique. Paris: Editions RMN, 1992.
Perrois, Louis. “Le Maître de la Sébé: les figures de reliquaire kota ‘à tête de mort’ de l’est du Gabon/De Meester van de Sébé: de Kota-reliekbeelden met doodshoofd uit Oost-Gabon,” In Mains de maîtres: à la découvertes des sculpteurs d’Afrique/Masterhands: Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker edited by Bernard de Grunne, 141-159. Brussels: Espace Culturel BBL, 2001.
Perrois, Louis. “Les Maîtres du Ntem: les sculpteurs fang mvaï du Nord-Gabon/Meesters van de Ntem-vallei: de Fang Mvaï-beeldsnijders van Noord-Gabon,” In Mains de maîtres: à la découvertes des sculpteurs d’Afrique/Masterhands: Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker edited by Bernard de Grunne, 121-139. Brussels: Espace Culturel BBL, 2001.
Perrois, Louis. La statuaire fang: Gabon. Mémoire ORSTOM 59. Paris: ORSTOM, 1972. [Review by Annie Dupuis available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes43, no. 2 (1973): p. 284.]
Perrois, Louis and Jean-Paul Notué. Rois et sculpteurs de l'Ouest Cameroun: la panthère et la mygale. Paris: Karthala and ORSTOM, 1997.
Perrois, Louis and Marta Sierra Delage. L'art Fang: Guinée équatoriale. Barcelona: Fundació Folch; Paris: Aurore éditions d'art, 1991.
Perrois, Louis and Marta Sierra Delage. The Art of Equatorial Guinea: The Fang Tribes. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
Ravenhill, Philip L. Baule Statuary Art: Meaning and Modernization. Working Papers in the Traditional
Arts, 5. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980.
Ravenhill, Philip L. Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates Among the Baule, West Africa.
Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Ravenhill, Philip L. "Likeness and Nearness: The Intentionality of the Head in Baule Art." African Arts
(Los Angeles) 33, no. 2 (Summer 2000): pp. 60-71, 92.
Sarpong, Peter. The Sacred Stools of the Akan. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1971.
Savary, Claude. "Une canne sculptée de l’Afrique de l’ouest.” Musées de Genève (Geneva) 319 (July-Aug.
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Siroto, Leon. "Njom: The Magical Bridge of the Beti and Bulu of Southern Cameroon." African Arts (Los
Angeles) 10, no. 2 (Jan. 1977) pp. 38-51, 90-91.
Spruit, Wim. "De andere wereld van de Baule." Nieuwsbrief van de Vereniging Vrienden van Ethnografica
(Otterlo) 38 (1992): pp. 36-39.
Van Beek, Walter E. A. and Pieteke M. Banga. “The Dogon and their Trees,” in Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture,
Environment and Development edited by Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin, pp. 57-75. London: Routledge, 1992.
Vidal, Frédéric. "Les Bariba." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 83 (Autumn 1992): pp. 12-14.
Vogel, Susan Mullin. Beauty in the Eyes of the Baule: Aesthetics and Cultural Values. Working Papers in
the Traditional Arts, 6. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980.
Vogel, Susan Mullin. Fang: An Epic Journey. Brooklyn, NY: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts,
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Vogelzang, Jacques. "Rituele lepels." Nieuwsbrief van de Vereniging Vrienden van Ethnografica (Otterlo, The Netherlands) 38 (1992): pp. 13-17.
Walker, Roslyn Adele. "Anonymous Has a Name: Olowe of Ise," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 91-106. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Walker, Roslyn Adele. "The Ikere Palace Veranda Posts by Olowe of Ise (research note)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 24, no. 1 (Jan. 1991): pp. 77-8.
Willett, Frank. "Nigerian Thorn Carvings: A Living Monument to Justus Akeredolu." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 48-53.
Witte, Hans. "Ifa Trays from the Osogbo and Ijebu Regions," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 59-77. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.