Research Catalog

Title

Staffs of life : rods, staffs, scepters, and wands from the Coudron Collection of African art / Allen F. Roberts, editor ; with contributions from William J. Dewey ... [et al.].

Publication

[S.l.] : PASALA, the Project for Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa ; [Iowa City] : University of Iowa Museum of Art, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, Allen F., 1945-
• Dewey, William Joseph
• University of Iowa. Museum of Art
• University of Michigan. Museum of Art
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Description

66 p. : ill. (some col.); 22 x 26 cm.

Subject

• Coudron, Al > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Coudron, Margaret > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Sculpture, African > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
• Wood-carving > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
• Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
• Regalia > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
• Insignia > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
• Sculpture > Private collections > Michigan > Ypsilanti > Exhibitions
• Wood-carving > Private collections > Michigan > Ypsilanti > Exhibitions

Note

• Exhibition held at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Jan. 29-Mar. 20, 1994, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Dec. 3-Feb. 26, 1995 and Minneapolis Institute of Art, June 7-Aug. 26, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-66).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Staffs from eastern and southern Africa / by William J. Dewey -- Heavy stuff and heavy staffs from Chokwe and related peoples of Angola, Zaire and Zambia / by Manuel A. Jordán -- The sculpted narratives of Luba staffs of office / by Mary Nooter Roberts -- West African staffs in the Coudron collection / by Christopher D. Roy -- An iron staff for the Yoruba deity of farming / by William J. Dewey.

LCCN

^^^98234792^

OCLC

SCSB-10167723

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library