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Image collections - Africa

Africa Focus: Image and Sound Collection

This online collection is maintained by theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Completed in March 2000, the collection contains more than 3,000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five countries.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/subcollections/FocusAbout.shtml

African Art

Overview of ancestral Bushman rock art and traditional and contemporary African art with photos and maps.

http://www.lonker.net/art_african_1.htm

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

An electronic art exhibit from the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia with excellent images accompanied by extensive descriptions explaining their cultural and religious significance.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

African Heritage Architecture

The mission of African Heritage Architecture is to re-establish architectural tradition of West Africa. The photographs, which were taken by Paul Taylor, show examples of indigenous architecture both buildings and details

http://www.africanarchitecture.com/

African Sculpture

Images of African sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Sculpture/menu_Sculpt.html

African art on the internet

Art section of the Africa South of Sahara, prepared by Karen Fung for the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association, USA, and housed at Stanford University Library.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html

Art & Life in Africa

Contains information about African art and culture with images and searchable engine.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html

Art of the African Mask

An exhibition catalogue of the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia with images accompanied by informative text.

http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

Artsite Africa

An excellent online guide to the art of Africa. Over 800 permanent links leading to African art resouces worldwide, including many images.

http://www.artsiteafrica.com/

Dogon-Lobi Photo Album

Photographic presentation of the Dogon country. Photo and text by Huib Blom.

http://www.dogon-lobi.ch/index_1024.htm

Passport to Paradise

Online exhibition of artworks, photographs and images of writings of the Mourides with introductory texts and portraits of featured artists. Based at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/paradise/main001.htm

Yoruba and Akan Work in Wood and Metal

Images of Yoruba and Akan work from the Lake View Museum, Peoria, Illinois.

http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/africart/home.html