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• Agbaje-Williams, Babatunde and Akinwumi Ogundiran. Cultural Resources in Ijesaland, Western Nigeria. Ilesa: Ijesa Cultural Foundation, 1992.
• Andah, Bassey W. "Transport and Communication," in Nigeria's Indigenous Technology, pp. 103-117. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1992.
• Ardill, Nelly and Christian Bossu-Picat. Seychelles: Artisanat et création. Paris: Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1987.
• Audu, Isa. Tsinza: A Monograph of the Bura Xylophone. Final Year Essay, Dept. of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri, 1990.
• "The Avant Garde Gallery." Eye: A Juornal of Contemporary Art (Zaria) 1, no. 1 (Dec. 1992): pp. 40-42.
• Bahuchet, Serge. "Chez les Pygmées d'Afrique centrale, des outils de l'éphémère...." L'instrument [Special Issue of Corps écrit] (Paris) 35 (1990): pp. 13-20.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Symbolism of the Lega Stool. Working Papers in the Traditional Arts 2. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977.
• Birley, Margaret. "Musical Instruments: An Exhibition at the Balfour Building, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 64-67.
• Boesen, Elisabeth. "Gleaming Like the Sun: Aesthetic Values in Wodaabe Material Culture." Africa 78, no. 4 (2008): pp. 582-602.
• Brandily, Monique. Instruments de musique et musiciens instrumentistes chez les Teda du Tibesti. Annales de la Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren, Belgique 8. Sciences humaines 82. Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, 1974. [Review by Geneviève Calame-Griaule available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 45, no. 1-2 (1975): pp. 220-221.]
• Cantrell, Brent. Hosting funerals in Dapaong, Togo. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992.
• Carter, P. L. "Hunter Gatherers: Past and Present." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 67-69.
• Cheetham, Linda. "Making Light Work." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 60-63.
• Curnow, Kathy. At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. Cleveland, OH: The Galleries at Cleveland State University, 2014.
• Delarozière, M. F. "Notes sur l'artisanat mauritanien," in Introduction à la Mauritanie, pp. 127-153. Aix-en-Provence, France: Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman, 1979.
• Dieterlen, G., and Z. Ligers. "Notes sur les tambours-de-calebasse en Afrique occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 33, no. 2 (1963): pp. 255-274.
• Dilley, Roy. "The Visibility and Invisibility of Production: In Different Social Contexts among Senegalese Craftsmen,"" in Commodification: Things, Agency, and Identities: The Social Life of Things Revisited edited by M. J. van Binsbergen and Peter L. Geschiere, pp. 227-241. Munich: Lit Verlag, 2005.
• Egboh, J. A. "The Ngas Smoking Pipe Bowl (Tul-Taba)." Nigerian Heritage: Journal of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (Lagos) 1 (1992): pp. 62-76.
• Ejedepang-Koge, S.N. The Tradition of a People, Bakossi: A Historico-Socio-Anthropological Study of One of Cameroon's Bantu Peoples. Revised Edition. Washington, D.C.: S.N. Ejedepang-Koge, 1986.
• Fomin, E. S. D. and Michael M. Ndobegang. "African Slavery Artifacts and European Colonialism: The Cameroon Grassfields from 1600 to 1950." The European Legacy 11, no. 6 (2006): pp. 633-646.
• Forkl, Hermann. "Innerafrikanische Akkulturation bei den Wad'ela, einem Stamm der Kerdi-Mur (Nordkamerun)," in Festschrift Lazlo Vajda edited by Claudius Müller and Hans-Joachim Paproth, pp. 63-77. Münchner Beiträge zur Völkerkunde 1. Munich: Hirmer, 1988.
• Frobenius, Leo. Peuples et sociétés traditionelles du Nord-Cameroun. Translated from the German by Eldridge Mohammadou. Studien zur Kulturkunde 83. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1987.
• Fubah, Mathias Alubafi. "The Changing ‘Life’ of the Buffalo/Cow Horns and New Methods of Adaptation by Carvers/Patrons in the Grassfields, Cameroon." African Studies 73, no. 1 (April 2014): pp. 41-57.
• Ganay, Solange de. "Le xylophone chez les Sara du Moyen Chari." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 12 (1942): pp. 203-240.
• Ganay, Solange de and Marcel Griaule. "Notes sur les pirogues et la pêche dans la région du Bahr Salamat." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 187-204.
• Gansemans, Jos. "Quelques considérations sur le xylophone mendzang des Ewondo (Cameroun)." Africa-Tervuren (Tervuren) 17, no. 3 (1971): pp. 87-88.
• Garba, Abubakar. "The Dufuna Canoe." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 10 (Jan.-Feb.-March 1992): pp. 13-20.
• Gavua, Kodzo. Style in Mafa Material Culture. Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 1990.
• Gaylard, Joseph. "The Craft Industry in South Africa: A Review of Ten Years of Democracy." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 26-29, 94.
• Geis-Tronich, Gudrun. Materielle kultur der Gulmance in Burkina Faso. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner erlag, 1991.
• Griaule, Marcel. "Note sur un couteau de circoncision bozo." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 26 (1956): pp. 7-8.
• Griaule, Marcel. "Nouvelles remarques sur la harpe-luth des Dogon." Journal de la Société des Africanistes (Paris) 24, no. 2 (1954): pp. 119-122.
• Griaule, Marcel and Germaine Dieterlen. "La harpe-luth des Dogon." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 20, no. 2 (1950): pp. 209-227.
• Guyer, Jane I. "The Iron Currencies of Southern Cameroon." Symbols (Cambridge) (Dec. 1985): pp. 2-5, 15-16.
• Hinchman, Mark Alan. Portrait of an Island: The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758–1837. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. [Reviewed by Dwight Carey in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 76, no. 3 (Sept. 2017): pp. 387-389.]
• Homburger L. "Collection ethnographique marocaine." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 1, no. 2 (1931): pp. 307.
• Knöpfli, Hans. Crafts and technologies: some traditional craftsmen of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon - vol. 4. Living in style: handicrafts, music and the fabric of social life. Basel: Basel Mission, 2002. [Reviewed by Raymond Silverman in Material Religion 2, no. 2 (2006): pp. 247-248.]
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Le fer, le bois, et la fibre: la chasse chez les Fali," in Ethnologiques: hommages à Marcel Griaule editd by Solange de Ganay, pp. 217-38. Paris: Hermann, 1987.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Quelques types de poulaillers africains." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 12 (1942): pp. 33-47.
• Loftsdottir, Kristin. "Commercializing Culture: Artisanry Production and the Wodaabe in Niger." The Journal of Cultural Studies (Ago-Iwoye) 3, no. 2 (2001): pp. 316-32.
• Maseko, Jane. "Handicraft in Swaziland," in African Crafts: Articles and Writings from the Design Seminar for African Craft Experts at the University of Industrial Arts Helsinki, 1-12.8.1988 edited by Elina Melgin, pp. 40-43. Helsinki: Government Printing Center, 1990.
• Nomades. Quebec: Musée de la Civilisation, 1992.
• Ogbuabia, Stephen. Illustrated Catalogue of B.M.D.P. Musical Instruments. Final Year Essay, Department of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri, 1990.
• Ould Mohamed Saleh, Hamada. "Messages artistiques du désert." journal title unkown, pp. 7-9.
• Paine, Frances. "A Crafty Country." African Sunrise (London) 3, no. 4 (1990): pp. 12-13.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "'Primitive money' in Ethiopia." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 32, no. 2 (1962): pp. 213-248.
• Perrois, Louis and Michel Dieu. "Culture matérielle chez les Koma-Gimbe des monts Atlantika (Nord-Cameroun): Les gens de la bière de mil," in Relations interethniques et culture materielle dans le bassin du lac Tchad: Actes du IIIème Colloque MEGA-TCHAD, Paris, ORSTOM, 11-12 septembre 1986 edited by Daniel Barreteau and Henry Tourneaux, pp. 175-182. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1990.
• A Pictorial Presentation of Plateau Arts and Crafts. Jos, Nigeria: Better Life Programme for the Rural Women, Plateau State, Nigeria, 199?.
• Poulet, Jacques. "Singularités des médecines africaines traditionnelles." Arts d'Afrique noire 7 (Autumn 1973): pp. 13-21.
• Reche, Otto Das abia-Glücksspiel der Jaunde und die Darstellungen auf den Spielmarken. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg 9. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1924.
• Robertson, Ian G. "Hoes and Metal Templates in Northern Cameroon," in An African Commitment: Papers in Honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, pp. 231-240. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1992.
• Roy, Christopher D. Art of the Upper Volta Rivers. Meudon, France: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1987.
• Schaeffner, André. "Sur deux instruments de musique des Bata (Nord Cameroun)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 123-152.
• Schweeger-Hefel, A. "Les insignes royaux des Kouroumba (Haute-Volta)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 32, no. 2 (1962): pp. 275-324.
• Seligman, Thomas K. and Kristyne Loughran, eds. Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World. Stanford and Los Angeles, CA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2006.
• Sieber, Roy. African Furniture and Household Objects. New York: The American Federation of Arts and Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980. [Reviewed by Arnold Rubin in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 22-8.]
• Siroto, Leon. "Spoons from Western Equatorial Africa," in Spoons in African Art: Cooking, Serving, Eating, Emblems of Abundance edited by Lorenz Homberger, pp. 56-73. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1991.
• Stillman, Y. K. "De marokkaans-joods materiële cultuur en folklore – Moroccan Jewish Material Culture and Folklore.” Joden onder de Islam: een cultuur in historisch perspectief – Jews under Islam: A Culture in Perspective edited by J.-M. Cohen, 115-33. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum, 1993.
• Taylor, Mark and Jeremy Fox. "The Fetish Market, Lomé, Togo." Nigerian Field (UK) 57, no. 3-4 (Oct. 1992): pp. 119-125.
• Tijani, Abba Isa. "Observations and Notes on Fishing and Fishermen along the Komadugu Yobe." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 8-9 (July-Aug.-Sept.-Oct.-Nov.-Dec. 1991): pp. 25-27.
• Tijani, Abba Isa. "Research into Kanuri Music." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 11-12 (April-May-June-July-Aug.-Sept. 1992): pp. 70-76.
• Tijani, Abba Isa. "Shilashila." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 11-12 (April-May-June-July-Aug.-Sept. 1992): pp. 64-66.
• Tuma be: Alltagskultur der westafrikanischen Savanne. Tubingen: E. Wasmuth, 1992.
• Van Geluwe. "Over Enkele Moorse Gebruiksvoorwerpen." Africa-Tervuren 13, no. 1 (1967): pp. 15-23.
• Vogels, Raymonds. "Traditional Music in Borno." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 1 (Oct.-Nov.-Dec. 1989): pp. 3-12.
• von Gersdorff, Ralph. “Situation actuelle de l’artisanat en Afrique francophone.” Revue Tiers Monde 10, no. 39 (July-Sept. 1969): pp. 595-628.
• Warnier, Jean-Pierre. "Bodily/material culture and the fighter’s subjectivity." Journal of Material Culture 16, no. 4 (2011): pp. 359-375.
• Wassouni, François. "Les autorités coloniales françaises et l’économie artisanale à Maroua (Cameroun): Bilan historiographique." Documents pour l’histoire des techniques 17 (1st semester 2009): pp. 149-161.
• Wente-Lukas, Renate. Die materielle Kultur der nicht-islamischen Ethnien von Nordkamerun und Nordostnigeria. Illustrations by Gisela Wittner. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 43. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977. [Review by Pierre Erny available online in Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 233-234.]
• Zahan, Dominique. "Notes sur un luth dogon." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 20, no. 2 (1950): pp. 193-207.