Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art Announces Promised Gift: The “African Ceremonies” Photographic Collection

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a promised gift, the “African Ceremonies” collection, that ...
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African twilight : the vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent / Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher ; foreword by Sir David Adjaye

Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.
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Painted bodies : African body painting, tattoos & scarification / Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher ; text with Mary Anne Fitzgerald

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...