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Igbo arts : community and cosmos / Herbert M. Cole and Chike C. Aniakor ; foreword by Chinua Achebe ; with contributions by Alexander Okwudor Attah ... [et al.].

Text

Los Angeles : Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, c1984.

1984

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Go well, my child / photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee ; in collaboration with Alan Paton.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

1985

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A human ideal in African art : Bamana figurative sculpture / Kate Ezra.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

1986

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The Rising of a new moon : a century of Tabwa art / [edited] by Evan M. Maurer and Allen F. Roberts.

Text

[Ann Arbor] : University of Michigan Museum of Art, c1985.

1985

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Images from Bamum : German colonial photography at the court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa, 1902-1915 / Christraud M. Geary.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institute Press, 1988.

1988

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Icons : ideals and power in the art of Africa / Herbert M. Cole.

Text

Washington : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

1989

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Foreheads of the dead : an anthropological view of Kalabari ancestral screens / Nigel Barley.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1988.

1988

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The art of the personal object / Philip L. Ravenhill.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, c1991.

1991

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History, design, and craft in West African strip-woven cloth : papers presented at a symposium organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988.

Text

Washington, D.C. : The Museum, c1992.

1992

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The voyage of King Njoya's gift : a beaded sculpture from the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon, in the National Museum of African Art / Christraud M. Geary.

Text

[Washington, D.C.] : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ; Seattle, Wash. : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, c1994.

1994

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Face of the spirits : masks from the Zaire Basin / editors, Frank Herreman ; Constantijn Petridis ; photography, Dick Beaulieu ; with contributions by M.-L. Bastin [et al.]

Text

Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju, c1993.

1993

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Astonishment and power / [introduction by Sylvia H. Williams and David C. Driskell].

Text

Washington : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1993.

1993

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Memory : Luba art and the making of history / edited by Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts ; with contributions by S. Terry Childs ... [et al.].

Text

New York : Museum for African Art, c1996.

1996

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Elmina : art and trade on the West African coast / [Christraud M. Geary, Andrea Nicolls].

Text

Washington, DC : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1992.

1992

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Asen : iron altars from Ouidah, Republic of Benin.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, [1993]

1993

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The creative heritage of Africa : an introduction to African art / produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation in collaboration with the Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

Text

Chicago, Ill. : EBE, c1972.

1972

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The poetics of line : seven artists of the Nsukka group : family guide / [written by Pedra Chaffers ; edited by Migs Grove ; designed by Susan Cook]

Text

[Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, 1997?]

1997

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 01-232Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Patterns of life : West African strip-weaving traditions / Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 88-166Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Transatlantic dialogue : contemporary art in and out of Africa / Michael D. Harris ; with an additional essay by Moyo Okediji.

Text

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Seattle, Wash. : Distributed by The University of Washington Press, c1999.

1999

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Snap me one! : Studiofotografen in Afrika / herausgegeben von Tobias Wendl und Heike Behrend ; mit Beiträgen von Heike Behrend ... [et al.].

Text

München ; New York : Prestel, c1998.

1998

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Beaded splendor.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, [1994]

1994

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A personal journey : Central African art from the Lawrence Gussman collection / essay by Christa Clarke ; with catalogue entries by David Binkley ... [et al.].

Text

Purchase, N.Y. : Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, c2001.

2001

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The artistry of African currency.

Text

[Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art, 2000?]

2000

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Africa illustrated [microform] : fantasy and reality before 1900 : June 5, 1991-November 10, 1991.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of Afican Art : Smithsonian Institution Libraries, [1991]

199-1991

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In and out of focus : images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 / Christraud M. Geary ; with an essay by Krzysztof Pluskota.

Text

London : Philip Wilson ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, c2002.

2002

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Ethiopian passages : contemporary art from the diaspora / Elizabeth Harney ; with contributions by Jeff Donaldson, Achamyeleh Debela, Kinsey Katchka.

Text

London : Philip Wilson ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

2003

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Claiming art, reclaiming space : post-apartheid art from South Africa / National Museum of African Art.

Text

Washington, D.C. : The Museum, [1999]

1999

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Inscribing meaning : writing and graphic systems in African art / Christine Mullen Kreamer ... [et al.] ; contributors, Sarah Adams ... [et al.].

Text

[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art ; [Milan?] : 5 Continents, c2007.

2007

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The Rising of a new moon : a century of Tabwa art. Teacher's guide / Edward Lifschitz, Kim Habraken.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institute Press, c1986.

1986

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Encompassing the globe : Portugal and the world in the 16th & 17th centuries / edited by Jay A. Levenson ; with contributions by Diogo Ramada Curto and Jack Turner.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, c2007-

2007-present

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Yinka Shonibare, MBE.

Text

Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2008.

2008

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ F 10-154Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Divine Comedy : heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists / editor, Simon Njami ; co-editor, Mara Ambrožič.

Text

Bielefeld : Kerber, 2014.

2014-2014

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Sounding forms : African musical instruments / edited by Marie-Thérèse Brincard ; text by Arthur Bourgeois ... [et al.].

Text

New York : American Federation of Arts, 1989.

1989

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African art in the cycle of life / Roy Sieber and Roslyn Adele Walker.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Press, c1987.

1987

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Ọḷóẉè of Iṣè : a Yoruba sculptor to kings / Roslyn Adele Walker.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, c1998.

1998

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 99-42Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Nsukka artists and Nigerian contemporary art / edited by Simon Ottenberg.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, c2002.

2002

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 02-1449Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African vision : the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection / Christine Mullen Kreamer ; with contributions by Bryna Freyer & Andrea Nicolls ; introduction by Martin A. Sklar.

Text

[Washington, D.C.] : National Museum of African Art ; Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2007.

2007

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 07-33Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Art of West African kingdoms / project director, Edward Lifschitz.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art, by the Smithsonian Institution Press, c1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 89-26Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Earth matters : land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa / Karen E. Milbourne.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ; New York, NY : Monacelli Press, [2013]

2013

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ F 14-143Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Africa illustrated : fantasy and reality before 1900 : June 5, 1991-November 10, 1991.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art : Smithsonian Institution Libraries, [1991]

1991

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The art of the personal object / Philip L. Ravenhill.

Text

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art : Seattle : [Distributed by] University of Washington Press, [1991], ©1991.

1991-1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberN7387 R196Item locationOff-site

Patterns of life : West African strip-weaving traditions / Peggy Stoltz Gilfoy.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1987], ©1987.

1987-1987

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Astonishment and power : Kongo minkisi & the art of Renée Stout.

Text

[Washington, D.C.] : [National Museum of African Art], [1993]

1993

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A human ideal in African art : Bamana figurative sculpture / Kate Ezra.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

1986

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The rising of a new moon : a century of Tabwa art : an exhibition held at the National Museum of African Art, January 29 to March 17, 1986 / Edward Lifschitz, project director ; Kim Habraken, author and illustrator.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the Dept. of Education and Research, National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

1986

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSI 1.20:M 77Item locationOff-site

The Art of West African kingdoms / project director, Edward Lifschitz.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art, by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1987], ©1987.

1987-1987

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Foreheads of the dead : an anthropological view of Kalabari ancestral screens / Nigel Barley.

Text

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of African Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1988], ©1988.

1988-1988

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FormatTextCall numberNB1097 N56 B24Item locationOff-site

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