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Figure: Bird (Porpianong)

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1979.206.176 (left)
1979.206.165 (right)


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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.

  • Bochet, Gilbert. “The Poro of the Senufo.” In Art of Côte d’Ivoire, Jean Paul Barbier, ed. Geneva, 1993. [O5F A78]
    • Vol. 1, pp. 54-85.
  • Breunig, Robert G. Animal, Bird and Myth in African Art. Phoenix, 1985. [O2 P57a]
    • p. vii.
  • Förster, Till. Die Kunst der Senufo, Museum Rietberg Zürich. Zürich, 1988. [O2 Z965kun]
    • "Exkurs: Helmmasken ausserhalb des Poro," pp. 56-59; and pp. 74-75 on hornbill sculptures.
  • Glaze, Anita. “Hornbill (Gahariga),” In For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, Susan Vogel, ed. New York, 1981. [O2 N545f REF]
    • Pp. 36-7.
  • Goldwater, Robert. Senufo Sculpture from West Africa. New York, 1963. [O2 N55 no.7 REF]
    • Pp. 28, 96-101.
  • McCall Daniel F. “The Hornbill and analogous forms in West African sculpture,” In African images: essays in African iconology, Daniel F. McCall, Edna G. Bay. eds. New York, 1967. [O3 A267]
    • Pp. 268-324.
  • Preston, George Nelson. Africa Art Masterpieces. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991. [O3 P93]
    • Pp. 108-9.
  • Roberts, Allen F. “Out on the Edge [selection],” In Animals in African Art: from the familiar to the marvelous. New York, 1995. [O3 R643]
    • Pp. 67-70.
  • Roy, Christopher D. African Sculpture: The Stanley Collection. Iowa City, 1979. [O2 I65]
    • Pp. 44-5.
  • Soderburg, B. “Porpianong, die Vogelskulpturen der Senufo,” Ethnos, Vol. 35 (1970), pp. 108-9. [A E845 v.35]

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