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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.
Author
  1. Boone, Sylvia Ardyn.

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Additional authors
  1. Busselle, Rebecca, 1941-
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
  7. Kunst
  8. Schoonheidsideaal
  9. Mende (volk)
  10. Vrouwen
  11. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Sierra Leone
  12. Esthétique > Afrique
  13. Femmes > Dans l'art
  14. Beauté féminine (esthétique) > Sierra Leone
  15. Femmes > Dans l'art > Sierra Leone
  16. Art Mende (peuple d'Afrique)
  17. Mendé (peuple d'Afrique)
  18. Femmes mendé
  19. Beauté corporelle
  20. Sierra Leone
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. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1979) under title: Sowo art in Sierra Leone.
  2. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 253-270.