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Works explorer

Buma: African sculpture speaks

United States, 1952
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Twenty different antique sculptures from Central and West Africa are used to illustrate the important part played by carved wooden statues and masks in the ev..

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African carving: a Dogon Kanaga mask

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Carved in ivory

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Looking at sculpture

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Plastic art

United States, 1939
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African odyssey: the two worlds of Musembe

United States, 1971
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[Sculpture]

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Africa: the land and its people. No. 1

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Pygmies of Africa

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People of the Congo

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The Origins of film: the African American cinema

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Africa mosaic

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Africa: the land and its people. No. 3

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Africa: the land and its people. No. 2

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The Art of the living

United Kingdom, 1992
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Face of South Africa

South Africa, 1960
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African music: old and new

United States, 1978
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