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Art and craft in africa: every life ritual,court

31/10/1995 00:00:00 Editions Pierre TerrailISBN:
  • 9782879390987
Subject(s): Summary: This is a presentation of African arts and crafts which provides a study of vessels and spoons, furniture, beaten bark and materials, jewellery, arms, musical instruments and ceremonial objects, from an aesthetic and ethnological viewpoint. Introduction : The art of the object in Black Africa -- 1. Furnishings for the hut and palace -- 2. The culinary arts : bowls, bottles and spoons -- 3. The colourful world of textiles and woodbark -- 4. The splendour of jewellery and adomments [sic] -- 5. Weapons for combat and prestige -- 6. The pleasures of social life : music, games and tobacco -- 7. Regalia, privilege of the great chiefs -- Map -- Where to see African objects.

This is a presentation of African arts and crafts which provides a study of vessels and spoons, furniture, beaten bark and materials, jewellery, arms, musical instruments and ceremonial objects, from an aesthetic and ethnological viewpoint. Introduction : The art of the object in Black Africa -- 1. Furnishings for the hut and palace -- 2. The culinary arts : bowls, bottles and spoons -- 3. The colourful world of textiles and woodbark -- 4. The splendour of jewellery and adomments [sic] -- 5. Weapons for combat and prestige -- 6. The pleasures of social life : music, games and tobacco -- 7. Regalia, privilege of the great chiefs -- Map -- Where to see African objects.