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• A description of the exhibition • Featured objects with color photographs, basic information, and explanatory text • A map of sub-Saharan Africa • Four essays on different aspects of divination in Africa • A glossary of principal terms • A bibliography of sources on African divination
The exhibition "Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa" is supported by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and was organized in collaboration with the Rietberg Museum, Zurich. The accompanying exhibition catalogue and this complementary Web site are made possible by The Ford Foundation. Also see acknowledgments and photography credits. 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, is available for purchase at the Online Met Store.
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reated
in conjunction with the exhibition "Art and Oracle" (on view
at the Museum from April 25 to July 30, 2000), this resource provides: