Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Engraved throughout. Pl. no.: 201 (on t.p. of violino Imo. part: 157, 158, 159, 160, 165, 200, 201, linking various Artaria editions of Pleyel's quartets). Library's parts bound individually in light green paper boards. Cover of violino Imo. part...
Small wooden figures, ranging in style from extremely abstract human forms resembling large clothespins to fairly naturalistic anthropomorphic forms, are called yanda and are used by the Mani society, a commoner group which provided a balance of...
The Tabwa live in extreme southeast Zaire, on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika. The Tumbwe live to the north, and the Bemba to the south in Zambia. The Hemba are to the west. This male ancestor figure belongs to Style I, the "Classic Tabwa...
This figure, field-collected by Marc Félix in the mid-1970s, is remarkably similar to five others in two private Belgian collections (illustrated in Roberts and Maurer 1985: 142-4). Four of these were field-collected as a set near the town of...
In the drainage basin of the Ogowe River, the Punu, Ashira, and Lumbo peoples use masks in a distinctive style that have often beencompared to the no masks of Japan. Most of these have white faces withbrilliant red lips and often nine...
Helmet masks called sowei are worn by women who have attained the middle level in the Mende sande society. This is the only important masking tradition in Africa which is reserved exclusively for women. The sande society takes charge of...