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Front MatterSource: Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, African Art at The ArtInstitute of Chicago (1997)Published by: The Art Institute of ChicagoStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4104376 .
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AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
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African Art
at The Art Institute of Chicago
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies
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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies
VOLUME 23, NO. 2
01997 by The Art Institute of Chicago
ISSN 0069-3235
ISBN 0-86559-I49-0
Published by The Art Institute of Chicago, iii South Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
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Sarah E. Guernsey; Subscription and Circulation Manager: Bryan D. Miller.
Unless otherwise noted, all works in the Art Institute's collection were pho-
tographed by Robert Hashimoto in the Department of Imaging, Alan Newman,
Executive Director, with the exception of cat. nos. 9, 18, 19, 27, and 35, which were
photographed by Nancy Finn, Department Specialist/Textile Photographer in the
Department of Textiles.
Volume 23, no. 2, was typeset in Stempel Garamond by Z...Art & Graphics, Chicago;
and 5,ooo copies were printed by Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Front cover: inset: Guinea, Baga, Headdress (Nimba, D'mba, or Yamban) (detail),
mid-nineteenth/early twentieth century (see p. 123, cat. no. 13); background image:
M.A. Chevrier, photograph of a nimba headdress, probably in a Bulufiits or Baga
F6re village, c. 1904 (see p. 126, fig. 4). Back cover: Mali, Dogon, Standing Male
Figure, eighteenth century (see p. iio, cat. no. 3).
This issue of Museum Studies has been supported, in part, by generous grants from
Furthermore, the publication program of The J. M. Kaplan Fund; the Lila Wallace-
Reader's Digest Fund Museum Collections Accessibility Initiative; Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Molner; Allison Davis; and Neal Ball.
Ongoing support for Museum Studies has been provided by a grant for scholarly
catalogues and publications from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Table of Contents THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Museum Studies, Volume 23, No. 2
African Art at The Art Institute of Chicago
Foreword ........................................... 100
Art of the Western Sudan ............................... 104
KATH LEEN E. BIC K F O R D, The Art Institute of Chicago
C H E R I S E SMITH, The Art Institute of Chicago
The Nimba Headdress: Art, Ritual, and History of the Baga and Nalu Peoples of Guinea ..................... 120
MARIE Y V O N NE CURTIS, Universite de Paris I
R A M 0 N SA R R 0, University College London
Art of the Akan ....................................... 134
N II O T O KUN 0 R Q UARC 0 O P 0 ME, University of Michigan
Icons and Emblems in Ivory: An Altar Tusk
from the Palace of Old Benin ............................. 148 BARBARA WINSTON BLACKMUN, San Diego Mesa College
Art of the Yoruba ...................................... 164
M 0 Y 0 0 K E D 13 I, Wellesley College
Of Mothers and Sorcerers: A Luluwa Maternity Figure ............ 182
C 0 N S TA N T I N E P E T R I D I S , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Notes ............................................. 196
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