Benin Artwork Statue

Vol. 1 / No. 4

By: Margaret Plass

The Art of Benin

An evaluation based on discussions with William Fagg, Deputy Keeper of Ethnography in the British Museum. The art of Benin […]

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Vol. 5 / No. 3

By: Margaret Plass

Above the Salt

The Mediaeval custom, among people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar, called a salt foot, near the middle of […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: Margaret Plass

The Fetish That Knew Too Much

A powerful fetish that also served as an oracle in the Kra or Tchien tribe of Liberia has recently been […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 2

By: Margaret Plass

The Dance of Sigi

The old chief, seventy-five years old by the calendar of the Europeans, two Sigis and ten years by the calendar […]

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