Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination.(Book Review)

African Arts | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Alisa LaGamma

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000. 80 pp., 5 b/w & 50 color photos. $19.95 soft-cover.

Art and Oracle was published to accompany an exhibition of the same name that was mounted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring and early summer of 2000. The exhibition was the first in a long time to present African art at the Metropolitan outside the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. It included 140 objects relating to African divination practices: single figures, sets of objects, costumes used in divination performances, and objects that ...

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