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The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa
The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa illustrates for the first time a collection of African Sculpture at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The masks and figurative carvings from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century are from two sources: Ambassador and Mrs. Julius Walker's gift to ICASALS (International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies), now on permanent loan to the Museum, and the Elliot Howard Collection. Howard, an artist and authority on antiques, chose examples of sculpture for their "variety and aesthetic appeal". His hope was that the pieces he assembled would provide new discoveries for those unac...
Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods
"Niven was planning a book about his experiences, but never completed it owing to ill health. The result of twenty years' research, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods offers a well-illustrated and vivid first-hand account through Wicks and Harrison's selection of photographs and stories from Niven's own extensive writings and those of people with whom he worked."--BOOK JACKET.
ICASALS Newsletter
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Texas Libraries
"Directory and statistics" (called -1954 "Directory of Texas libraries") issued as Apr. number, 1954-58 (Apr. 1954 as Special ed.)
The Museum Journal
Vols. 1-4, 6 include the 26th-32nd Annual report of the West Texas Museum.
Art Voices/South
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Drawing on America's Past
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.
The Trabue Family in America, 1700-1983
Antoine Trabuc (b.ca. 1667/1668), a Huguenot, married Bernarde Chevalie, emigrated from France to England (via Switzerland and The Netherlands) about 1689, and then immigrated to Manakin Town, Henrico County, Virginia in 1700; he changed the spelling of his surname to Trabue. Descendants lived in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, California and elsewhere.
