Elephant. The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture

Brossura molto buono Inglese unico I ed.. Testo in inglese. Catalogo dell'esposizione Los angeles (California - USA), Fowler Museum of Cultural History 1992. IV / 500 / brossura patinata con grafica in n/b ed illustrata a colori ai piatti (front cover: "Ekpo" society mask from Nigeria (Ogoni peoples). Wood, pigment, vegetable fiber. Height 85 cm. The Trustees of the British Museum, 1954 - back cover: Elephant coffin signed "Kane Kwei, Super Coffin Teshie," 1985. Accra, Ghana. Wood, paint, cloth. Lenght 105.5 cm. Collection of Ernie Wolfe III). Illustrazioni a colori e in b / n, f.t. e nel testo.. Stato buono-ottimo. Contents: Acknowledgements - Preface - Maps of Africa - Imagiining Elephants: An Overview; Doran H. Ross (Ivory Trumpets) - the African Elephant in Its Environment; Jeheskel Shoshani (Elephant Hunters) - Proboscideans, Hominids, and Prehistory; John A. Van Couvering (Glass Paintings from Senegal) - Talking (Gray) Heads: Elephant as Metaphor (In African Myth and Folklore; Donald J. Cosentino (Ivory Bangles) - Sama Ba: The Elephant in Bamana Art; Mary JoArnoldi and Kate Ezra (Elephant on the Rocks) - Of Pachyderms and Power: Ivory and the Elephant in the Art of Central Côte d'Ivoire; Philip L. Ravenhill (Elephant Riders) - More than Meets the Eye: Elephant Memories Among the Akan; Doran H. Ross (Loango Ivories) - The Elephant and Its Ivory in Benin; Barbara Winston Blackmun (Disguised as Elephants) - Image and Indeterminacy: Elephants and Ivory Among the Yoruba; Henry John Drewal (Urban Elephants) - The Igbo: Prestige Ivory and Elephant Spirit Power; Herbert M. Cole (Staffs, Scepters, and Whisks) - Elephants, Ivorfy, and Chiefs: The Elephant and the Art of the Cameroon Grassfield; Christaud M. Geary (Fon Elephants) - Elephants, Ivory, and Art: Duala Objects of Persuasion; Rosalinde G. Wilcox (Cloth Elephants) - The Teeth of Nyim: The Elephant and Ivory in Kuba Art; David A. Binkley (Afro - Portuguese Ivories) - The Stampeding of Elephants: Elephant Imprints on Lega Thought; Elizabeth Cameron (Luba Elephants) - Ivory from Zariba Country to the Land of Zinj; Sidney Littlefield Kasfir (The Elephant of Wilson Mwangi) - Under the Gun: Elephants in Ethiopian Painting; Girma Fisseha (Ivory Jewelry) - The Ivory Trade in Africa: An Historical Overview; Edward A. Alpers (An Ivory Workshop in Liberia) - The Material Culture of Ivory Outside Africa; David A. Shayt (Elephant Victoriana) - Epilogue: The Future of Elephants, Real and Imagined; Doran H. Ross - References Cited.