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African Collections Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste. 1998. The Tribal Arts of Africa: Surveying Africa's Artistic Geography. London: Thames & Hudson.

Barraclough, Geoffrey (ed.). 1983. Atlas of World History. London: Times Books Limited.

Boulger, Demetrius C. Undated (c. late 1910s). Belgian Congo: Savage Land & Its Motley Millions. In Hammerton (undated), pp. 380-409.

Barley, Nigel. 1994. Smashing Pots: Feats of Clay from Africa. London: British Museum Press.

  • 1997. Traditional Rural Potting in West Africa. In Ian Freestone and David Gaimster (eds.). In Pottery in the Making: World Ceramic Traditions, pp 140-145. London: British Museum Press.

Benitez-Johannot, Purissima, Jean Paul Barbier and Alain-Michel Boyer. 2000. Shields: Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania: From the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Munich, London, New York: Prestel.

Biebuyck, Daniel. 1985. The Arts of Zaire: Volume I: Southwestern Zaire. Berkeley,

Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

  • 1986. The Arts of Zaire: Volume II: Eastern Zaire: The Ritual and Artistic Context of Voluntary Associations. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Biebuyck, Daniel and Frank Herreman. 1995. Central Africa. In Phillips, Tom (ed.). Africa: The Art of a Continent, pp 231-326. London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Birkett, Dea. 1992. Mary Kingsley: Imperial Adventuress. Basingstoke and London: MacMillan Academic and Professional Ltd.

Blier, Suzanne Preston. 1998. Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form. London: Laurence King Publishing.

Burkinshaw, Jane. 1999. Klaya-Ho-Alth: Collections from the Northwest Coast of North America in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter. Exeter: Exeter City Museums.

Cadbury (nee Cotterill), Tabitha. 1995. Earth, Women and Fire: Symbolism in African Pottery. Norwich: Sainsbury Research Unit. Unpublished MA dissertation.

  • 2002. Accessing the Amazon: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Ethnographi Collections. Nottingham: Nottingham-Trent University. Unpublished PgDip dissertation.
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Conrad, Joseph. 1902. Heart of Darkness. London: Penguin (1994 edition).

Dennett, Richard E. 1886. The Congo from a Trader's Point of View. In Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, 1886, pp. 283-306.

  • 1887. From Banana, at the Mouth of the Congo, to Boma, etc. [Letters by R.E. Dennett], Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, 1888, pp. 112-23.
  • 1887. Seven Years Among the Fjort, Being an English Trader's Experience in the Congo District. London: Sampson Lowe, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
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  • 1897 a. Death and Burial of the Fiote. In Folklore, 8, 1897, pp. 132-137.
  • 1897 b. Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, with Introduction by Mary Kingsley. London: Publications of the Folk-Lore Society XLI.
  • 1901-02. The Religion of the Fjort or Fiote: 'Mavungu'. In Journal of the African Society, 1901-02, pp. 452-54.
  • 1902. Laws and Customs of the Fjort of Bavili Family, Kingdom of Loango. In Journal of the African Society, 3, April 1902, pp. 259-87.
  • 1903-04. Notes on the Benin Language of the Efa ("People") or the Bini, Commonly Called Uze Ado. In Journal of the African Society, 1903-04, pp. 142-143.
  • 1903-04. King Maluango's Court. In Journal of the African Society, 1903-04, pp. 154-58.
  • 1903-04. The Court of the Slave Mambona. In Journal of the African Society, 1903-04, pp. 159-62.
  • 1903-04. A Few Notes on the History of Loango (Northern Portion of Congo Coast). In Journal of the African Society, 1903-04, pp. 227-80.
  • 1905. Bavili Notes. In Folklore, 16, pp. 277-80.
  • 1906. At the Back of the Black Man's Mind, or Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
  • 1910. Nigerian Studies or The Religious and Political System of the Yoruba. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
  • 1911. Notes on West African Categories. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
  • 1916 a. My Yoruba Alphabet. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
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Dorson, Richard. 1968. The British Folklorists. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Fagg, William. 1967. The Art of Central Africa: Tribal Masks and Sculpture.

  • 1968. African Tribal Image. Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art.

Feldmann, Susan. 1963. African Myths and Tales. New York: Dell.

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl. 1978. African Weapons: Knives, Daggers, Swords, Axes. Passau: Prinz-Verlag.

Frank, Katherine. 1986. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Gardner, Joseph L. & Berenson, Richard J. (eds.). 1993. Atlas of the World. London: Readers Digest.

Gates Jr., Henry Louis. 1995. Europe, African Art and the Uncanny. pp. 27-30 in Phillips, Tom (ed.). Africa: The Art of a Continent. London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Gillon, Werner. 1984. A Short History of African Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Ginzberg, Marc. 2000. African Forms. Milan: Skira.

Glasscoe, Marion. 1984. Ashton Church Guide.

Green, Alice Stopford. 1901. Mary Kingsley. In Journal of the African Society, No. 1, October 1901, pp. 1-16.

Gwynn, Stephen. 1932. The Life of Mary Kingsley. London: Macmillan & Co.

Haddon, Alfred Cort.1910. History of Anthropology. London: Watts & Co.

Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Kecskesi, Maria and Vajda, Laslo. 1998. African Masks. From the Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva. Munich, N.Y., Prestel,

Hammerton, J.A. (ed.). Undated (c. late 1910s). Peoples of All Nations, Volume 1: Abyssinia to British Empire. London: Education Book Co., Limited.

Hochschild, Adam. 2000. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Central Africa. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-76544-3.

Hooper, Steven (ed.). 1997. Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Volume II: Pacific, African and Native North American Art. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Idiens, Dale. Undated. Catalogue of the Ethnographic Collection: Oceania, America, Africa. Perth: Perth Museum & Art Gallery.

Idiens, Dale and K.G. Ponting. 1980. Textiles of Africa. Bath: The Pasold Research Fund.

Jacobson-Widding, Anita. 1979. Red-White-Black as a Mode of Thought: A Study of Triadic Classification of Colours in the Ritual Symbolism and Cognitive Thought of the Peoples of the Lower Congo. Uppsala Studies in Social Anthropology 1.

Jansen, John M. & Wyatt MacGaffey. 1974. An Anthology of the Kongo Religion: Primary Texts from Lower Zaire. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology Number 5.

Kingsley, Mary. 1897. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons. London: Virago (1982 edition).

  • 1897 b. The Fetish View of the Human Soul. In Folklore, 8, 1897, pp. 138-151.
  • 1899. West African Studies. London.

Koloss, Hans-Joachim (ed.). Africa: Art & Culture: Masterpieces of African Art. Ethnological Museum Berlin. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel.

Kwasnik, Elizabeth I. (ed.). 1994. A Wider World: Collections of Foreign Ethnography in Scotland. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland.

Lamp, Frederick John (ed.). 2004. See the Music, Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Prestel.

Lehuard, Raoul. 1980. Fetiches a Clous du Bas-Zaire. Arnouville: Arts D'Afrique Noire.

MacGaffey, Wyatt. 1986. Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

  • 1991. Art and Healing of the Bakongo Commented by Themselves: Minkisi from the Laman Collection. Stockholm: Folkens museum-etnografiska.

MacGaffey, Wyatt and Harris, Michael (eds.). 1993. Astonishment and Power: Kongo Minkisi and the Art of Renee Stout/2 Books in 1. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Mack, John. Undated. Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo 1900-1909. London: British Museum Press.

  • 1993. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Offshore Islands. In Harris, Jennifer (ed.). 5000 Years of Textiles, pp. 295-305. London: British Museum Press.
  • 2000. Africa: Arts and Cultures. London: British Museum Press.
  • 2003. The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures. London: British Museum Press.

McLynn, Frank. 1992. Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa. London: Hutchinson.

Meyer, Laure. 2001. Art and Craft in Africa. Paris: Terrail.

Museo Pigorini. Undated. Africa Musica! Exploring the Collection of the Museo Pigorini. Montréal: Museo Pigorini.

Nooter, Mary H. 1993. Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals. New York: The Museum for African Art.

Ó Síocháin, Séamas and Michael O'Sullivan (eds.). 2003. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.

Pennie, Michael. 1991. African Assortment: African Art in Museums in England and Scotland. Bath: Bath College of Higher Education Press.

Phillips, Tom (ed.). 1995. Africa: The Art of a Continent. London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Picton, John & John Mack. 1979. African Textiles: Looms, Weaving and Design. London: British Museum Publications Ltd.

Pole, Len. 1999. Iwa L'Ewa: Yoruba and Benin Collections in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter. Exeter: Exeter City Museums.

  • 2000. World Connections: World Cultures in the South West of England. South West Museums Council.

Proctor, Andrew. 1994. Cultures of the World: The Ethnographic Collections of Dundee Art Galleries and Museums. Dundee: Dundee Art Galleries and Museums.

Schildkrout, Enid and Curtis Keim (eds.). 1998. The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schumann, Yvonne. 1986. Survey of Ethnographic Collections in the United Kingdom, Eire and the Channel Islands. Hull: The Museum Ethnographers Group, Occasional Paper Number Two.

Segy, Ladislas. 1976. Masks of Black Africa. New York: Dover Publications.

Shelton, Anthony (ed.). 1995. Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire. London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd.

Sieber, Roy. 1980. African Furniture and Household Objects. New York: Indiana University Press.

Sieber, Roy and Herreman, Frank. 2000. Hair in African Art and Culture. New York: The Museum for African Art.

Spring, Christopher. 1993. African Arms and Armour. London: British Museum Press.

Starkey, Janet C.M. 1998. Myths and Mirrors: A Report on Ethnographic Collections in the North East of England. Newcastle upon Tyne: North East Museums.

Stepan, Peter. 2001. World Art: Africa. Munich, London, New York: Prestel.

Stepan, Peter and Iris Hahner. Undated. Spirits Speak: A Celebration of African Masks. Munich, London, Berlin, New York: Prestel.

Thompson, Barbara. Undated. The Sacred Vessel: Ceramic Minkisi as Agents of Healing. Iowa City: University of Iowa.

Turnbull, Colin M. 1961. The Forest People. London: Book Club Associates.

  • 1983. The Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Vahnee, Hein. 2000. Agents of Order and Disorder: Kongo Minkisi. In Karel Arnaut (ed.). Re-visions: New Perspectives on the African Collections of the Horniman Museum. London & Coimbra: The Horniman Museum and Gardens & Museu de Antroplogia da Universidade de Coimbra, 2000, pp. 89-106.

Vansina, Jan. 1978. The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples. Winsconsin: The University of Winsconsin Press.

Vogel, Susan (ed.). 1988. Art/Artifact: New York: The Center for African Art, Prestel Verlag,

Weeks, John H. 1911. Congo Life and Folklore. London.

Willett, Frank. 1993. African Art: An Introduction. London: Thames and Hudson.

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