African Section

A Walk Through the Gallery: African Negro Sculpture

The new African Gallery has been designed to exhibit, simply and honestly, a selection of sculptures from our permanent collections. […]

Introduction: African Negro Sculpture

As you will shortly see-or have just seen-like other racial and ethnic areas, Negro Africa has its own special kind […]

Lincoln Kirstein: Ballet

Mr. Kirstein was the only selector to choose a piece from the Museum’s large New Ireland collection. Of this dance […]

Charles Addams: ...Of The New Yorker

Charles Addams chose this figure of a whale from a Tlingit helmet, Southeast Alaska, and remarked: These objects were selected […]

Warp and Woof

WARP AND WOOF, the University Museum’s current exhibit of historic and contemporary textiles, has a double aim: to spread before […]

Masks

III. Types of Money: Primitive Money

In enumerating the most important types of money which have had validity among primitive peoples, the following arrangement has been […]

II. Origin of Money: Primitive Money

The origin of money, like all problems of a similar nature, is a question which is invariably raised by scholars […]

I. What Is Money?: Primitive Money

In an age in which money has become the ultima ratio of human society and in which its function has […]

Suggested Reading: The African Collections of the University Museum

Tribal Monographs Evans-Pritchard, E. E., Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, London, 1937. Herskovits, M. J., Dahomey; an Ancient […]