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Benitez-Johannot, P. and Jean Paul Barbier. SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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Ben-Amos, Paula. THE ART OF BENIN. A sophisticated art of West Africa. BNo. 0-500-06009-6. First Edition, 1980 (pb). Pp: 96; 250mm x 190mm; 0.33kg. 48 col, 49 b/w, 2 fig, 2 maps. Bibliography, notes, acknowledgments, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1980. (Drawing on oral traditions, recent archaeological discoveries and accounts of European travellers which date back to the sixteenth century, the author describes how the ancient art of Benin emerged) (Keywords: Ethnology, cultural history, West Africa, Benin, Olokun, Ofoe, Ogun).
Book Code: C567 AU$15
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Benitez-Johannot, P & Jean Paul Barbier. SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania. From the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. BNo. 3-7913-2341-5. First Enlish Edition, 2000 (1998). Pp: 256; 310mm x 240mm; 1.78kg. 120 col,130 b/w, 100 fig, 21 maps. Foreword, references, bibliography, index, acknowledgments, credits. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor bump on front corners). Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 2000. (The exhibition displayed shields from the musee Barbier-Mueller collection from across Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia. Each of the one-hundred shields is shown with a full-page colour photograph together with a complementary line drawing and, in most cases, archival black and white field-photograph showing the shield type in use by the tribal person) (Keywords: Gascoyne & Murchinson Rivers, Broome, Fitzroy, Kardjarri, Warlpiri, San Cristobal, Santa Isabel, New Georgia, Bougainville).
Book Code: N552 AU$120
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Detail of wrapper - JOURNEY UP THE NILE
Caputo, Robert. JOURNEY UP THE NILE. From the Mediterranean Sea to its headwaters in Rwanda, Burindi, and Uganda. BNo. 0-934738-36-X. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 164; 300mm x 225mm; 1.45kg. Num col, 10 maps. Introduction. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Thomasson-Grant Inc, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1988. (In Journey Up The Nile, Robert Caputo takes the reader on an eight-month, 6600 kilometre journey from the mouth of the Nile to its headwaters) (Exploration, travel, East Africa, Nuba, Nuer, Mondari, Dinka, Ambara, Sudan).
Book Code: C574 AU$48
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Coulson, David. NAMIB. Desert South West Africa. BNo. 0-283-99960-8. First Edition, 1991. Pp: 240; 305mm x 240mm; 1.65kg. num col, 1 map. Preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1991. (Namib is the story of a little-known wilderness in south-western Africa. David Coulson's story describes the nomads of Kaokoland; the wild horses of Garub; and the bushman rock art of the interior) (Keywords: Natural history, anthropology, Africa, Hottentot, Khoi, Herero, Himba).
Book Code: E073 AU$65
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Davidson, Basil. THE STORY OF AFRICA. A history of powerful empires and kingdoms. BNo. 0-85533-648-X. Reprint Edition, 1986 (1984) (pb). Pp: 288; 250mm x 175mm; 0.70kg. 65 col, num b/w, fig, maps. Foreword, chronology, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Mitchell Beazley International Limited, London, 1986. (A compelling history of the peoples who make up Africa today: where they came from, how they developed, and what they produced) (Keywords: History, Africa, myths, art, Egypt, Ethopia, Nok, Benin, Asante, Kilwa, slavery, colonial period).
Book Code: D501 AU$22
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Detail of wrap - A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICAN ART
Gillon, Werner. A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICAN ART. Influences on culture and art forms. BNo. 0-14-013611-8. Reprint Edition, 1991 (1984) (pb). Pp: 408; 230mm x 155mm; 0.88kg. 250 b/w, 14 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1991. (This book reconstructs a comprehensive history of the visual arts of Africa. It includes not only sculpture, painting and architecture, but also textiles, pottery and other household objects, jewellery, ceremonial and religious dress and body art) (Keywords: Ethnology, visual art history, Africa, sculpture, painting, jewellery).
Book Code: K008 AU$30
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