Author: Roy Sieber et al.

Publisher/Date: Dayton Art Institute, 2000, 1st printing, exhibition catalog

Format/Condition: NEW large softcover book is in fine condition. 140 pages, illustrated measures 9×12 inches

Description: Illustrated with more than 100 color photographs of masks, ceremonial knives, cloths, dolls, fetish figures, shields, metal currency, shrine objects, adornments, stools, and musical instruments, this volume looks at traditional African arts south of the Sahara. The essays and captions here attempt to understand how these ephemeral objects would have been seen by their users—not as works of art in the Western sense, but as functional and important items for life, made as needed and discarded when spent. The cover is embossed with a copper mask from the Kong-Dinga peoples.