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British Museum [Published Date: 1970]. Soft cover, 48 pp. Catalog published in connection with the exhibtion held at the Britihs Museum in 1970.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Square pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Contents include: Preface by William Fagg and John Picton; Introduction / The Potter's Art in Africa : Pottery as art, the earliest pottery, the Nok Culture, Ife, Women as potters: exceptions, Techniques, The arrangement and dates of the pots in this exhibition, Ghana: sacred pottery, Ghana: terra-cotta sculpture, Chana: useful Pots, Cameroon grasslands, The Gbaya of Central Cameroon, The Western Congo, The Congo, North-east Africa, East Africa, The Luzira Head, Southern Africa, Northern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria: terra-cottas, The Yoruba, the Ibo of Nigeria, Western Ibo, Eastern Nigeria, The Ibo and Ijo, The Kabyles of Algeria [From Preface] This selection, from the point of view of art, from the African pottery held in the Department of Ethnography has been chosen fairly evenly from the resources available. It is immediately evident from a perusal of the list of exhibition cases that whereas there is a reasonably adequate coverage of many of the areas in which British people have worked during the past century or so, other areas, such as those frequented by Frenchmen during the same period, are almost totally lacking in our collections. There are some notable exceptions, such as the great Kabyle collection which we owe mainly to Mrs Eustace Smith about the turn of the century, and of course the Bakuba collections from the Congo, made by Emil Torday a few years later (and the Congo collections have been further supplemented by very numerous, though undocumented, specimens in the benefaction of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1954). Steps are now being taken wherever possible to obtain collections from other areas, beginning with the fine collection from the Gbaya of central Cameroon, perhaps the most famous of African potters, made by the University College of Wales Central Cameroon Expedition in 1969. .