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Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art

Title
  1. Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art / Sylvia Ardyn Boone ; photographs by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and Rebecca Busselle.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986], ©1986.
Author
  1. Boone, Sylvia Ardyn.

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Description
  1. xxii, 281 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
Series statement
  1. Yale publications in the history of art ; 34
Uniform title
  1. Yale publications in the history of art ; 34.
Subject
  1. Sande Society
  2. Sande (Société)
  3. Arts, Mende
  4. Arts > Sierra Leone
  5. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
  6. Arts primitifs > Sierra Leone
  7. Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
  8. Masques > Afrique
  9. Arts mendé
  10. Masques mendé
  11. Femmes mendé
  12. Arts
  13. Kunst
  14. Schoonheidsideaal
  15. Mende (volk)
  16. Vrouwen
  17. Esthétique > Afrique
  18. Femmes > Dans l'art
  19. Beauté féminine (esthétique) > Sierra Leone
  20. Femmes > Dans l'art > Sierra Leone
  21. Art Mende (peuple d'Afrique)
  22. Mendé (peuple d'Afrique)
  23. Beauté corporelle
  24. Sierra Leone
  25. Mende visual arts
Contents
  1. Mende history and culture : a brief overview -- The Sande Society -- Kpanguima : the world of beauty that Sande makes -- Physical and metaphysical aspects of Mende feminine beauty -- Sowo : the good made visible.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1979) under title: Sowo art in Sierra Leone.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.