Introduction to Traditional Art of Western Africa E. V. Asihene Constable, London, 1972

The dynamism, power and presence of traditional African carving have had immense impacts ever since 1897 when the British first looted some 2,000 works of art from the city of Benin and outlying villages.

The book covers artists' methods of carving wood and stone, and casting bronze; their reverence for materials; tribal myths, Sun, Moon and River deities, Ancestor worship, Secret Societies, and the use of masks and images in initiation and fertility rites.

121 illustrations 88 pp

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