African Vision - The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection

In 2005, the Walt Disney Company donated its Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution´s National Museum of African Art. One of the world´s finest collections of African art, it contains iconic pieces dating from thefifteenth to twentieth centuries and represents seventy-five peoples and twenty countries. This book explores the many ways that the collection reflects Africa´s rich history and culture. Figures carved in stone, wood, and ivory; masks, crowns jewelry, and hunting tools-each object is presented in vivd color plates and accompanied by texts providing information about the objects´ history, uses, and materials. This beautiful book accompanies the first public presentation of the collection inthe past twenty years.