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West Africa (13)

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

Patch, Diana Craig and Alisa LaGamma

(2022)

"Art and Politics: A Staff from the Court of Benin, West Africa": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 13 (1978)

Vogel, Susan Mullin

(1978)

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

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

(1969)

Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection

Ezra, Kate

(1988)

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End

LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini

(2008)

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)

Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Max Hollein

(2020)

"The Heraldic Lion in Akan Art: A Study of Motif Assimilation in Southern Ghana": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 16 (1981)

Ross, Doran H.

(1981)

A Masterwork of African Art: The Dogon Couple

Watts, Edith W.

(2002)

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

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

(1969)

"Photographic Portraiture in West Africa: Notes from 'In and Out of the Studio'": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 51 (2016)

Paoletti, Giulia and Yaëlle Biro

(2016)