Tozzer Library

Bibliography for Masked Festivals of Canton Bo, Southwest Ivory Coast

A Peabody Museum / Tozzer Library Exhibition
All books and journals are in the Tozzer Library collection except where noted.


Suggestions for further reading

" 'It Opens Your Mouth!' Forest Spirit Identities in Public Display and Private Discussion: Masking and Rhetoric in Canton Bo, Southwestern Côte d'Ivoire," by Monni Adams. Archiv für Völkerkunde 56: 1-30. 2006. L.SOC.12.8

"Agency and control in masked festivals among the Bo people, southwestern Côte d'Ivoire," by Monni Adams. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 130 (2): 195-221. 2005. L.SOC.45.17.1

"Interpretations of Masking in Black African Ritual," by Monni Adams, in Africa-Tervuren 27 (2): 46-51. 1981. MUS.15.10.7.3

La Vérité Premiére du Second Visge Africain, by Alphonse Tiérou. Paris: 1975. WID DT545.42 T5

Tradition et Changements dans la Société Guéré, by Alfred Schwartz. Mémoires ORSTOM, no. 52. Paris: 1971. L.SOC.42.103.18.13 (52)

Dynamique de la Société Ouobé loi des Masques et Coutume, by J. Girard. Mémoires de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Ifan, Dakar: 1967. L.SOC.42.105.28.7.65

Classification Stylistique du Masque Dan et Guéré de la Côôote d'Ivoire Occidentale (A.O.F), by P.J.L. Vandenhoute. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1948. MUS.55.4.5 (4)

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On the African collections at the Peabody Museum

"Both Sides of the Collecting Encounter: The George W. Harley Collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University," by Monni Adams. Museum Anthropology 32 (1): 17-32. 2009. L.SOC.120.49.27

"African Collections at the Peabody Museum," by Monni Adams. Symbols , Spring 2008 Issue, pp. 11-15. Cambridge MA: Peabody Museum. MUS.120.20.7.2.50
African Art: The Spirit Manifest…An Exhibition in Cooperation with the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, June 25-September 24, 1978. Lincoln MA: De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, 1978. MUS.120.20.4.18

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General works on African masks

Spirits Speak: A Celebration of African Masks, by Peter Stepan.
Munich, NY: 2005. AFR. Sp 49 Portfolio

Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, by Pamela McClusky.
Seattle, Princeton: 2002. AFR. M 460 a

Masques. Suivi d'un Texte de Leo Frobenius (1898). Paris, 1995.
AFR. M 380.8 Portfolio

Black Africa: Masks, Sculpture, Jewelry, by Laure Meyer. Paris, 1992.
AFR. M 575 aE Folio

Assuming the Guise: African Masks Considered and Reconsidered.
Williamstown MA: 1991. AFR. As 79 Folio

The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, by Eberhard Fischer and Hans
Himmelheber. Zurich, 1984. MUS.115.152.30.12E

Masks of Black Africa, by Ladislas Segy. NY: 1976. AFR. Se 39 m

African Masks, by Franco Monti. London, NY: 1969. AFR. M 767 mE

The Art of Western Africa: Sculpture and Tribal Masks.
Introduction by William Fagg. NY: 1967. AFR. Ar 73.5

Masks of West Africa, by Leon Underwood. New York: 1948.
AFR.W.EQ. Un 2 m

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