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Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from The Museum of Primitive Art

Goldwater, Robert, Douglas Newton, Julie Jones, and Tamara Northern

(1969)

Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary

LaGamma, Alisa, ed., with contributions by Barbara Boehm, Elias K. Bongmba, Kairn Klieman, Alisa LaGamma, Denise Patry Leidy, and Louis Perrois

(2007)

"A Figure for Cibola: Art, Politics, and Aesthetics, among the Luluwa People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 36 (2001)

Petridis, Constantine

(2001)

For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection

Vogel, Susan, ed., with Kate Ezra

(1981)

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture

LaGamma, Alisa

(2002)

Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico, The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection

Butterwick, Kristi

(2004)

How to Read Oceanic Art

Kjellgren, Eric

(2014)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 9 (May, 1969)

Chow, Fong, Robert Goldwater, and Alexandrine St. Claire

(1969)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 5 (April–May, 1972)

Barnhard, Richard, Marilynn Johnson Bordes, Richard Ettinghausen, Everett Fahy, Henry Geldzahler, Mary Glaze, Maxwell Hearn, Colta Ives, Phyllis D. Massar, A. Hyatt Mayor, Douglas Newton, Harvey Stahl, Marie Swietochowski, and Renata Villein

(1972)

Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kjellgren, Eric

(2007)