his online resource has been designed to relate to the exhibition "Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa," at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 25 to July 30, 2000, as well as the exhibition catalogue "Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination" by Alisa LaGamma, Assistant Curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The exhibition is supported by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and was organized in collaboration with the Rietberg Museum, Zurich. The exhibition catalogue and this special feature on the Museum's Web site are made possible by The Ford Foundation. Photographs were supplied by the owners of the works of art specified in the catalogue entries. All rights reserved. Additional photography credits are as follows: American Museum of Natural History, Department of Library Services, Dennis Finnin: cat. no. 11; Lynton Gardiner: cat. no. 34 The Art Institute of Chicago (Digital Server Copyright License): cat. no. 42 Christoph Bünten: cat. no. 26 Cincinnati Art Museum, Forth 1987: cat. no. 7 René Devisch 1974: Pemberton essay fig. 4 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 1926–1930: Pemberton essay fig. 1 The Field Museum, Chicago, Ron Testa: cat. no. 46 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Michael Bodycomb 1999: cat. no. 32 Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Stephen Petegorsky: cat. no. 20 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Photograph Studio: cat. nos. 15, 40; Paul Lachenauer: cat. nos. 1, 2, 4, 10, 19, 22, 25, 29, 31, 35–38, 41 Archive Musée Dapper, Paris, Hughes Dubois: cat. no. 48 Musée d'Ethnographie, Neuchâtel, Wettstein and Kauf: cat. nos. 23, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, D. Pousard: cat. no. 14 Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Rainer Wolfsberger: cat. nos. 3, 21, 47, 49 A. Ottiger: cat. nos. 24, 39 John Pemberton III 1984: Pemberton essay fig. 5 Marc-Laurent Rivière: cat. no. 17 Mary Nooter Roberts 1988–1989: Pemberton essay figs. 2, 3 Courtesy of Sotheby's: cat. no. 9 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Eric Hesmerg: cat. nos. 8, 28 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig, Karin Wieckhorst: cat. no. 16 Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, S. Autrum-Mulzer: cat. no. 12 Jerry L. Thompson: cat. nos. 30, 43 Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, Bernd Kegler: cat. no. 13 The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Stanley Collection, Randall Tosh: cat. no. 18 Wettstein and Kauf: cat. no. 44
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