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Comprising: 1. ABHANDLUNGEN UND BERICHTE DES STAATLICHEN MUSEUMS FUR VOLKERKUNDE DRESDEN, Band 24, 1965. 181 pages of text plus 32 pages of photographs and 2 pages of drawings. This very important journal from the Dresden Museum fur Volkerkunde contains a number of important illustrated papers. The titles of some of the papers (in English, though the papers are in German) are: "Ancient Eskimo Implements with Iron Blades" by H. Israel; "Notes on Hunting of the Nambicuara Indians", by L. Boglar; "The Decay of the Clan Community in Ruanda", by L. Holy; "Rectangular Benin Plaques Representing Europeans: Remarks on the Iconography and Dating", by S. Wolf; "Methods of Obtaining Colors in Me'vdana, Normandy Island (S.E. New Guinea)" by E. Schleiser 2. Faldini, L., M. Parodi Di Passano, G. Della Ragione. AFRICA AMERICA OCEANIA. Le Collezioni Ethnologiche Del Museu Civico. Turin, 1978. 157 pages, 739 objects photographed in b/w and 52 objects photographed in color. 3. Van Dijk, R., L. Van Ham. AFRICA: ART AND CULTURE OF THE UPPER VOLTA. Rotterdam, 1981. 96 pages, 46 color photographs--mostly full-page, 12 figures, 4 maps. Hard board cover. 4. Woodward, R. AFRICAN ART. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. 94 pages, 39 full-page color photographs, 30 b/w photographs, 2 drawings 2 maps. 5. Wieschhoff, H. AFRICAN COLLECTIONS. Philadelphia, 1945. 76 pages, 26 photographs--almost all full-page of objects in the University Museum. 6. Fuhrmann, E. AFRIKA. Sakralkulte Vorgeschichte der Hieroglyphen (Kultur und Erde, Material zur Kultur und Kunstgeschichte Aller Volker. Band VI). Hagen, 1922. 181 pages, 121 full-page photographs of artifacts, 58 small drawings. Hard board cover, worn spine. 7. Bodrogi, T. AFRIKANISCHE KUNST. Vienna; Budapest, 1967. This is the German language edition of "Art in Africa".131 pages of text containing 21 drawings and 8 full-page color photographs, plus 191 photographs--almost all full-page--of objects in Eastern and Central European private and museum collections. Cloth cover. 8. Gauthier, J. ANCIENT ART OF THE NORTHERN CAMEROONS: SAO AND FALI. Ooesterhout, 1973. 126 pages, 93 pages of photographs of royal funerary art of two Grassland kingdoms, 2 pages of drawings. Cloth cover. 9. Holas, B. ANIMAUX DANS L'ART IVOIRIEN. Paris, 1969. 333 pages, 140 full-page photographs. 10. Zahan, D. ANTILOPES DU SOLEIL. Art et Rites Agraires d'Afrique Noire. Vienna, 1980. 294 pages, 538 drawings of Bamana tyi wara headdresses, plus 43 drawings and photographs in the text. Hard board cover. 11. Pitt-Rivers, A. ANTIQUE WORKS OF ART FROM BENIN, COLLECTED BY LIEUTENANTGENERAL PITT-RIVERS. London, 1900. iv, 100 pages of text plus 50 pages of photographs of 389 objects. Later cloth cover (10 1/12" x 12"). Fine condition. Privately printed. Hundreds of objects were acquired during the Punitive Expedition led by Gen. Pitt Rivers that scoured Benin City; most were stored in the author's private museum in Dorset. This classic inventory, with the author's notes and descriptions of each illustrated object is one of the rarest of the Benin publications. 12. Gardi, B., E. Kivekas, U. Pallasmaa. ARKILLA KERKA. Tekstilleja Lansi-Afrikasta. Tampere, 1991. 80 pages, 84 large color and 3 b/w photographs of a private Finnish collection of textiles from Mali, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and the Ivory Coast that was exhibited at three Finnish museums, 1 map. 13. ART OF AFRICA. Denver Art Museum, 1964. 16 pages, 34 photographs. (6252)$17.00 14. Dark, P. THE ART OF BENIN. Field Museum, Chicago, , 1962. 124 pages, 48 large photographs. 15. Goldwater, R. ART OF OCEANIA, AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS. From the Museum of Primitive Art. New York, 1969. 272 pages, 350 b/w and 16 color photographs. Soft cover. 16. Lamp, F. ART OF THE BAGA. A Drama of Cultural Re-Invention. New York, 1996. 267 pages, 128 color and 120 b/w photographs, 3 maps. Cloth cover. 17. THE ART OF GOLDWEIGHTS: Words, Form, and Meaning. Philadelphia, 1977. 68 pages, 39 color photographs of