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The African Origin of Civilization: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.79, no. 4 (Spring, 2022)

Patch, Diana Craig and Alisa LaGamma

(2022)

The Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde

Koloss, Hans-Joachim, with contributions by David Binkley, Arthur Bourgeois, Kathy Curnow, Kate Ezra, Dunja Hersak, Hans-Joachim Koloss, Wyatt MacGaffey, Polly Nooter, and Enid Schildkrout

(1990)

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

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

(1969)

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.79, no. 3 (Winter, 2022)

Alteveer, Ian, Hannah Beachler, and Sarah Lawrence, Introduction, with an essay by Michelle D. Commander and a graphic novella by John Jennings

(2022)

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)

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

Vogel, Susan, ed., with Kate Ezra

(1981)

Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Max Hollein

(2020)

Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beeson, Nora B.

(1972)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Hollein, Max

(2019)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Campbell, Thomas P.

(2012)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic)

Campbell, Thomas P.

(2014)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Chinese)

Campbell, Thomas P.

(2012)