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• Abubakar, Nurudeen. "Metallurgy in Northern Nigeria: Zamfara Metal Industry in the 19th Century," in Science and Technology in African History with Case Studies from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and Zambia edited by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali, pp. 55-77. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1992.
• 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.
• Andah, Bassey W. "Extraction and Mining Technology," in Nigeria's Indigenous Technology, pp. 71-88. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1992.
• Appia, Béatrice. "Le forgerons du Fouta-Djallon." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 35, no. 2 (1965): pp. 317-52.
• Arhin, Kwame. "Gold-mining and trading among the Ashanti of Ghana." Journal des africanistes 48, no. 1 (1978): pp. 89-100.
• Barros, P. de. "Bassar: A Quantified, Chronologically Controlled, Regional Approach to a Traditional Iron Production Centre in West Africa." Africa 56, no. 2 (1986): pp. 148-74.
• Batanouni, Hoda. Catalogue of Mamluk Doors with Metal Revetments. MA Thesis, American University in Cairo, 1975.
• Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. "European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court." Muqarnas 21 (2004): pp. 45-54.
• Bell, Stephen. "A Military Helmet and Mail Shirt at Däbrä Wärq, Goggam: Two Historic Objects of Probable Earlier Portuguese Provenance," 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. 152-160. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. The Art of Benin. Revised Edition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
• Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. "'Brass Never Rusts, Lead Never Rots': Brass and Brasscasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin," in Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa edited by Frank Herreman, pp. 103-111. New York: Museum of African Art, 2003.
• Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. "Sculptures et bronzes sont nos photographies d'antan." Arts d'Afrique noire 80 (Winter 1991): pp. 29-42.
• Blier, Suzanne Preston. Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Bouloré, Vincent. "Bénin, trésor royal au Musée Dapper." Arts d'Afrique noire 74 (Summer 1990): pp. 11-14.
• "A Brass Pendant Mask/Un masque pendentif de métal," in Art royal du Bénin/Royal Art of Benin, pp. 43-46, 51. Art Tribal/Tribal Art, Special Issue. Geneva: Barbier-Mueller, 1992.
• "A Brass Ring with Decapitated Bodies/Un anneau de métal aux corps duppliciés," in Art royal du Bénin/Royal Art of Benin, pp. 47-51. Art Tribal/Tribal Art, Special Issue. Geneva: Barbier-Mueller, 1992.
• Camara, Seydou. "Les Numun et la métallurgie ancienne du fer au Manden.” Etudes maliennes (Bamako) 46 (1992): pp. 5-33.
• Celis, Georges and Emmannuel Nzikobanyanka. La métallurgie traditionnelle au Burundi: Techniques et croyances. Archives d'anthropologie 25. Tervuren: Musée royal d'Afrique centrale, 1976. [Reviewed by Jean-Pierre Chrétien, review available online in Journal des africanistes 50, no. 50-1 (1980): pp. 157-158.]
• Chauveau, Jean-Pierre. "Contribution à la géographie historique de l'or en pays boule (Côte-d'Ivoire)." Journal des africanistes 48, no. 1 (1978): pp. 15-69.
• Chauveau, Jean-Pierre. "Le fer, l'outil et la monnaie: hypothèse à partir du jede, ancien couteau à debrousser baule (Côte d'Ivoire)," in Les instruments aratoires en Afrique tropicale: la fonction et le signe edited by J. Peltre-Wurtz, pp. 471-84. Cahiers ORSTOM, Série Sciences Humaines 10, no. 3-4. Paris: ORSTOM, 1984.
• Clarke, Christa. "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection. African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 16-35, 93.
• Clist, Bernard. "Des derniers chasseurs aux premiers métallurgistes: Sédentarisation et débuts de la métallurgie du fer (Cameroun, Gabon, Guinée équatoriale)," in Paysages quaternaires de l'Afrique dentrale atlantique edited by Raymond Lanfranchi and Dominique Schwartz, pp. 458-478. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1990.
• Clist, Bernard and B. Farine. "Découverte d'un dépôt de haches plates en fer à Libreville, Gabon." NSI: Bulletin de liaison des archéologues du monde Bantu (Libreville) 7 (1990): p. 7.
• Coulaud, Daniel. "Les forgerons à la lisière forestière du Nord-Betsiléo (Madagascar)" Journal de la Société des Africanistes 43, no. 2 (1973) : pp. 235-242.
• Crowley, Daniel J. "Fon Brass Tableaux as Historical Documents." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 54-9.
• Crowley, Daniel J. "Forowa: Ghanaian Brass Shea Butter Boxes." Unpublished paper presented at the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 1972.
• Dark, Phillip J. C. The Art of Benin: A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the A. W. F. Fuller and Chicago Natural History Museum Collections of Antiquities from Benin, Nigeria. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1962.
• David, Nicholas. "Between Bloomery and Blast Furnace: Mafa Iron-Smelting Technology in North Cameroon." African Archaeological Review (Cambridge) 7 (1989): pp. 183-208.
• David, Nicholas and J. Sterner. “Smith and society: patterns of articulation in the Mandara nountains (northeast Nigeria and northern Cameroon),” in Métallurgie du fer et sociétés africaines: bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique edited by Caroline Robion-Brunner and Bruno Martinelli. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2012.
• David, Nicholas and Yves Le Bléis. Dokwaza: Last of the African Iron Masters. [videorecording] Calgary: University of Calgary, 1988.
• David, René. "Le pouvoir hypnotique de l'or." Terre sauvage (Paris) 68 (Dec. 1992): pp. 80-90.
• de Barros, Philip. “Bassari: A Quantified, Chronologically Controlled, Regional Approach to a Traditional Iron Production Centre in West Africa.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 56, no. 2 (1986): pp. 148-174.
• De Maret, Pierre. "La recherche archéologique au Cameroun," in La recherche en sciences humaines au Cameroun: journée d'étude Bruxelles, 20 juin 1989 edited by P. Salmon and J.-J. Symoens, pp. 37-51. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 1991.
• de Maret, Pierre and F. Nsuka. “History of Bantu metallurgy: some linguistic aspects.” History in Africa 4 (1977): pp. 43-65.
• Dérendinger. "Les curieuses mines de fer de Télé-Nugar (Tchad)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 6, no. 2 (1936): pp. 197-204.
• Dieterlen, Germaine and Z. Ligers. "Un objet-rituel bozo, le Maniyalo." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 28 (1958): pp. 33-42.
• Dongmo, David. "L'exploitation artisanale de l'or dans la province de l'est (Cameroun)." Revue de géographie du Cameroun (Yaoundé) 8, no. 1 (1986): pp. 20-6.
• Doutoum, Mahamat Adoum. "Place et statut des forgerons dans la société maba du Tchad." Journal des africanistes (Paris) 60, no. 2 (1990): pp. 149-160.
• Échard, N. "Note sur les forgerons de l'Ader (Pays Hausa, République du Niger)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 35, no. 2 (1965): pp. 353-372.
• Eisen Plastiken aus Nigeria. Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus, 1992.
• Essomba, Joseph-Marie. "Archéologie et recherches en métallurgie du fer et âge du fer ancien au Cameroun (nécessité d'une intervention des sciences de la nature)," in Archéologie africaine et sciences de la nature appliquées à l'archéologie: 1er symposium international, Bordeaux 1983, pp. 467-72. Paris: A.C.C.T., 1986.
• Essomba, Joseph-Marie. L'Art traditionnel au Cameroun: statues et masques. Suresnes (France): Jean Dupuch, 1982.
• Essomba, Joseph-Marie. "Quelques analyses des sites de métallurgie ancienne du fer de Pan-Pan en pays Basa (sud-Cameroun)." NSI: bulletin de liaison des archéologues du monde bantu (Libreville) 3 (1988): pp. 15-19.
• Essomba, Joseph-Marie. "Le fer dans le développement des sociétés traditionnelles du sud Cameroun." West African Journal of Archaeology (Ibadan) 16 (1986): pp. 1-24.
• Fischer, Eberhard and Hans Himmelheber. The Arts of the Dan in West Africa. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1984.
• Fowler, Ian. Babungo: A Study of Iron Production, Trade and Power in a Nineteenth Century Ndop Plain Chiefdom (Cameroon). Ph.d., University of London, 1990.
• Fowler, Ian. “The Oku iron industry in its regional setting: a descriptive account. “ Baessler-Archiv 43 (1995): pp. 89-126.
• Fox, C. "Asante Brass Casting." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 66-71.
• Friede, H. M. and R. H. Steel. "Traditional Wooden Drum Bellows of South Western Africa." South African Archaeological Bulletin 41 (1986): pp. 12-16.
• Gabler, Sigrid Carrie. Iron Furnaces and Future Kings: Craft Specialization and the Emergence of Political Power in Central Madagascar. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2005.
• Garenne-Marot, Lawrence. "Organization of Metalworking Societies in 'Medieval' West Africa: The Smith of Sintiou Bara (Senegal),” in Aspects of African Archaeology: Papers From the 10th Congress of the Panafrican Association for Prehistory and Related Studies edited by Gilbert Pwiti and Robert Soper, pp. 523-532. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1996.
• Garenne-Marot, Lawrence, Michael L. Wayman, and Vincent C. Pigott. "Early Copper and Brass in Senegal," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 45-62. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Garrard, Timothy F. "An Asante Kuduo Among the Frafra of Northern Ghana," in The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and Periphery edited by Enid Schildkrout, pp. 73-79. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 65, part 1. Washington, DC: American Museum of Natural History, 1987.
• Gast, Marceau. "Cadenas," in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 11. Bracelets-Caprarienses, pp. 1692-1696. Aix-en-Provence, France: EDISUD, 1992.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Casting the 'Red Iron': Bamum Bronzes," in The Art of Metal in Africa edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard, pp. 71-78. New York: The African-American Institute, 1982.
• Guyer, Jane I. "The Iron Currencies of Southern Cameroon." Symbols (Cambridge) (Dec. 1985): pp. 2-5, 15-16.
• Hall, H. U. "Great Benin Royal Altar." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 13, no. 2 (June 1922): pp. 105-168.
• Harter, Pierre. "Les pipes cérémonielles de l’ouest camerounais." Arts d’Afrique noire 8 (Winter 1973): pp. 18-43.
• 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.
• Herbert, Eugenia W. "Lost-Wax Casting in the Cameroon Grassfields," in West African Economic and Social History: Studies in Memory of Marion Johnson edited by David Henige and T. C. McCaskie, pp. 69-80. Madison, WI: African Studies Program: University of Wisconsin, 1990.
• Johnson, M.A. "The French Impact upon African Art: The Case of Senegalese Goldsmiths," in Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism edited by G.W. Johnson, pp. 259-79. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies 16. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• Jonckers, Danielle. "Notes sur le forgeron, la forge et les métaux en pays minyanka." Journal des africanistes 49, no. 1 (1979): pp. 103-124.
• 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.
• Kita, K.M. "La technique traditionelle de la métallurgie du fer chez les Balega de Pangi (Zaire)." Muntu 3 (1985): pp. 85-99.
• Knöpfli, Hans. Crafts and technologies: some traditional craftsmen of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon - vol. 2. Sculpture and symbolism: woodcarvers and blacksmiths. Basel: Basel Mission, 1999.
• Kusimba, Chapurukha M., David J. Killick, and Richard G. Cresswell. "Indigenous and Imported Metals at Swahili Sites on the Coast of Kenya," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 63-77. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Kwarteng, Charlotte Boaitey and Pat Holden. "Kingdom of Gold: An Asante Exhibition." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 12, no. 1 (1981): pp.65-66.
• Lacoste, Camille. "Sabres Kabyles." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 28 (1958): pp. 111-191.
• Lambert, N. "L'apparition du cuivre dans la civilisation préhistorique." Le Sol, la parole et l'écrit 2000 ans d'histoire africaine: Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny , pp. 213-226. Bibliothèque d'histoire d'outre-mer. Études 5-6. Paris: Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer, 1981.
• Lambert, N. "Les industries du cuivre dans l'Ouest africain." West African Journal of Archaeology 1 (1971): pp. 9-21.
• Lambert, N. "Mines et métallurgie antique de la région d'Akjouj." Annales de l'IMRS 1 (1975): pp. 6-25.
• Lambert, N. Nouveaux object métalliques et nouveaux sites à cuivre. Rapport du LA 184, Museum d'histoire naturelle (1980): p. 278.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul and Annie Lebeuf. Les Arts des Sao: Cameroun, Tchad, Nigeria. Paris: Chêne, 1977. [Review by Françoise Treinen-Claustre available online in Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 218-220.]
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Bracelets anthropomorphes de Ga?ie (Tchad)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 35, no. 1 (1965): pp. 7-10.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Les collections Sao du Musée Lebaudy (Cabrerets, Lot)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 183-186.
• Magnant, Jean-Pierre. La terre Sara, terre tchadienne. Villes et entreprises. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.
• Malcolm, L. W. G. “Iron Smelting in Central Cameroon.” Man 24 (Sept. 24. 1924): pp. 136-138.
• McNaughton, Patrick R. The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power and Art in West Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
• Miller, Duncan. "Kaonde Copper Smelting: Technical Versatility and the Ethnographic Record," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 79-85. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• 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.
• Nevadomsky, J. "The Benin Bronze Horseman as the Ata of Idah." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 40-7, 85.
• Niangoran-Bouah, Georges. "Idéologie de l'or chez les Akan de Côte-d'Ivoire et du Ghana." Journal des africanistes 48, no. 1 (1978): pp. 127-140.
• Nsuka, F. and Pierre de Maret. “Etude comparative de quelques termes métallurgiques dans les langues bantoues.” in L’expansion bantoue edited by L. Bouquiaux, pp. 731-41. Paris: A.D.P.F., 1980.
• Perrois, Louis and Gérald Pestmal. "Note sur la découverte et la restauration de deux figures funéraires Kota-Mahongwe (Gabon)." Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines 8, no. 4 (1971): pp. 367-386.
• Perrot, Claude-Hélène. "Or, richesse et pouvoir chez les Anyi-Ndenye aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles." Journal des africanistes 48, no. 1 (1978): pp. 101-126.
• Pinçon, Bruno. "La metallurgie du fer sur les plateaux Teke (Congo): Quelle influence sur l'evolution des paysages au cours des deux derniers millenaires?" in Paysages quaternaires de l'Afrique centrale atlantique edited by Raymond Lanfranchi and Dominique Schwartz, pp. 479-492. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1990.
• Plankensteiner, Barbara. "The contemporary production of "antique" Benin bronzes in Benin City and Cameroon," in Original - Copy - Fake?: Examining the Authenticity of Ancient Works of Art - Focusing on African and Asian Bronzes and Terracottas: International Symposium Stiftung Situation Kunst, Ruhr-University Bochum, February 17th and 18th, 2007 edited by Oscar White Muscarella, et al. Mainz: Von Zabern, 2008.
• Podlewski, André Michel. "Les forgerons Mafa : description et évolution d'un groupe endogame." Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines 3, no. 1 (1966): pp. 6-46.
• Priese, Karl-Heinz. The Gold of Meroe. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.
• Prussin, Labelle.  “David in West Africa: No More Forever?”  Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): pp. 88-109.
• Prussin, Labelle. "Judaic Threads in the West African Tapestry: No More Forever?" Art Bulletin 88, no. 2 (June 2006): 328-353.
• Quéchon, Gérard. "La fin du néolithique et les débuts de la métallurgie dans le massif de Termit (Niger) — éléments de méthodologie," in Milieux, sociétés et archéologues edited by Alain Marliac, pp. 303-312. Paris: Karthala and ORSTOM, 1995.
• Rasmussen, Susan J. "Ritual Specialists: Ambiguity and Power in Tuareg Society." Man (London) 27, no. 1 (1992): pp. 105-128.
• Rey-Hulman, Diana. "L'or et les différenciations sociales dans l'Anno, ou la création de l'espace politique de l'Anno." Journal des africanistes 48, no. 1 (1978): pp. 71-88.
• Rivallain, Josette. "Paléomonnaies africaines: Moyens d'approche et fonctionnement: Un exemple en pays Sara, sud du Tchad." Economies et sociétés (Paris) 20, no. 2 (1986): pp. 31-48.
• Rivallain, Josette. "Sara: Echanges et instruments monétaires," in Le milieu et les hommes: recherches comparatives et historiques dans le bassin du Lac Tchad: actes de 2ème colloque Méga-Tchad ORSTOM BONDY, le 3 et 4 octobre 1985 edited by Daniel Barreteau and Henri Tourneaux, pp. 195-213. Paris: ORSTOM, 1988.
• Robert-Chalaix, Denise and M. Sognane. "Une industrie métallurgique ancienne sur la rive mauritanienne du fleuve Sénégal," in Métallurgies africaines: Nouvelles contributions edited by N. Echard. Paris: Mémoires de la Société des Africanistes, 1983.
• Roberts, Allen F. "A Note of the Precolonial Iron Currency of the Laka of Southwestern Chad." Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 58, no. 1 (1988): pp. 99-105.
• Roller, Duane W. "A Note on the Berber Head in London." Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (2002): pp. 144-146.
• Ross, Doran H. Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection. Houston, TX: Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2002. [Reviewed online by Robert T. Soppelsa on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/666.]
• Rowlands, Michael and Jean-Pierre Warnier. “The Magical Production of Iron in the Cameroon Grassfields,” in The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurstan Shaw, P. Sinclair, B. Andah, and A. Okpoko, pp. 512-550. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Schneider, Klaus and Sabine Weingarten. "Schmeidehandwerk und Eisenverhüttung bei den Dagara in Burkina Faso." Archiv fur Völkerkunde (Vienna) 46 (1992): pp. 157-188.
• Schnell, R. "Sur un marteau de pierre emmanché recueilli en Côte d'Ivoire." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 18, no. 1 (1948): pp. 127-128.
• Schwarz, Arturo. "Le forgeron céleste." Translated by Lisa Barthelmes. Arts d'Afrique noire 33 (Spring 1980): pp. 8-28.
• 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.
• Shore, D. "Steel-Making in Ancient Africa," in Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern edited by I. Van Sertima, pp. 157-62. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1983.
• Sieber, Roy. "Islamic Characteristics in Akan Metalwork." Unpublished Paper for the Tenth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York, NY, Nov. 1-4, 1967.
• Silverman, Raymond A. "Bono Brass Casting." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 60-4, 85.
• Silverman, Raymond A. and Neal Sobania. "Histories of Gold and Silver in Central and Eastern Ethiopia," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 341-352. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Sognane, M. La métallurgie ancienne du fer dans la vallée du Sénégal. Mémoire de fin d'études, série histoire et géographie, Ecole normale supérieure, Nouakchott, 1983.
• Tadesse, Bantaleem. "The Ma'etet and Cross," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 371-387. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Teferra, Zelalem. "Axumite Coins and Their Appearance in the Russian Hermitage Museum," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 edited by Birhanu Teferra and Richard Pankhurst, pp. 353-370. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003.
• Tietmeter, Elisabeth, ed. Zwei Eisen im Feuer: Schmieden im Kulturvergleich. Münster: Landschaftsverband, 1992. [Reviewed by Till Förster in Tribus: Jahrbuch des Lindenmuseums (Stuttgart) 41 (1992): pp. 222-223.]
• Tijani, Abba Isa. "Armlets of Sao." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 11-12 (April-May-June-July Aug.-Sept. 1992): pp. 62-64.
• Tijani, Abba Isa. Kanuri Brasses. Final Year Essay, Dept. of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri, 1990.
• Tijani, Abba Isa. "Kanuri Brasses." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 11-12 (April-Sept. 1992): pp. 5-14.
• Tubiana, Marie-José. "'Hommes sans voix': De l'image que les Beri donnent de leurs forgerons," in Afrika-Studien: Eike Haberland zum 65. Geburstag edited by Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Andreas Kronenberg, and Karl Heinz Striedter, pp. 335-350. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 36 (1990). Wiesbaden, Stuttgart: Franz Steinger Verlag, 1990.
• Vanacker, Claudette. "Cuivre et métallurgie du cuivre à Tegdaoust (Mauritanie orientale): Découvertes et problèmes," in Métallurgies africaines: Nouvelles contributions edited by N. Echard. Paris: Mémoires de la Société des afranistes, 1983.
• Wannyn, Rob. L. L'art ancien du métal au bas-Congo. Collection Les vieilles civilisations ouest-africaines. Champles, Belgique, Editions du Vieux Planquesaule, 1961. [Review by Faublée, Jacques available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 33, no. 2 (1963): pp. 322-323.
• Ward, Rachel. "The Inscription on the Astrolabe by 'Abd al-Karim in the British Museum." Muqarnas 21 (2004): pp. 345-358.
• Warnier, Jean-Pierre and Ian Fowler. “A Nineteenth-Century Ruhr in Central Africa.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 49, no 4 (1979): pp. 329-351.
• Wente-Lukas, Renate. "Fer et forgeron au sud du lac Tchad (Cameroun, Nigeria)." Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 107-122.
• Willett, Frank. "Stylistic Analysis and the Identification of Artist' Workshops in Ancient Ife," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 49-57. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
• Willett, Frank and Edward V. Sayre. "Lead Isotopes in West African Copper Alloys." Journal of African Archaeology 4, no. 1 (2006): pp. 55-90.
• Wolff, N.H. "A Hausa Aluminum Spoon Industry." African Arts 19, no. 3 (1986): pp. 40-4.
• Yamari, Yakubu. Brass Casting among the Bura Rahi and Bura Rampta. Final Year Essay, Dept. of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri, 1990.
• Yandia, Felix. Métallurgie centrafricaine: Enquêtes orales et prospections archéologiques dans le Nord-Ouest et le Nord-Est. Mémoire de D.E.N., Université de Paris I, Sorbonne.