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Helmet Masks (Cameroon)

1971.13 (not on view, June 2008)

1972.4.2

1978.412.560

1977.45

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Published Resources

Links with shelf numbers refer to WATSONLINE, the online library catalog of the Museum. Photocopies of each source reference are available in the Goldwater Library. Certain electronic resources are accessible within the museum or with an approved remote connection.

• Geary, Chistraud M. “Art and Political Process in the Kingdoms of Bali-Nyonga and Bamum (Cameroon Grassfields).” Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 22, no. 1 (1988), pp. 11-14. [A C214 or Online]

• Geary, Chistraud M. Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya. Washington, D.C., 1984. [O5PBM G29im]
  • Chapter 6, “Art and Ritual Recorded: Using Photographs in Research,” pp. 85-117

• Gebauer, Paul. Art of Cameroon: With a Catalog of the Gebauer Collection of Cameroon Art at the Portland Art Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portland, Ore., 1979. [O5P G29]

• Northern, Tamara. The Art of Cameroon. Washington, D.C., 1984. [O2 W338]
  • Pp. 26-71, 144-161.

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