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AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO



African Art

at The Art Institute of Chicago

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies



THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies

VOLUME 23, NO. 2

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Table of Contents THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Museum Studies, Volume 23, No. 2

African Art at The Art Institute of Chicago

Foreword ........................................... 100

Art of the Western Sudan ............................... 104

KATH LEEN E. BIC K F O R D, The Art Institute of Chicago

C H E R I S E SMITH, The Art Institute of Chicago

The Nimba Headdress: Art, Ritual, and History of the Baga and Nalu Peoples of Guinea ..................... 120

MARIE Y V O N NE CURTIS, Universite de Paris I

R A M 0 N SA R R 0, University College London

Art of the Akan ....................................... 134

N II O T O KUN 0 R Q UARC 0 O P 0 ME, University of Michigan

Icons and Emblems in Ivory: An Altar Tusk

from the Palace of Old Benin ............................. 148 BARBARA WINSTON BLACKMUN, San Diego Mesa College

Art of the Yoruba ...................................... 164

M 0 Y 0 0 K E D 13 I, Wellesley College

Of Mothers and Sorcerers: A Luluwa Maternity Figure ............ 182

C 0 N S TA N T I N E P E T R I D I S , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Notes ............................................. 196



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