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aesthetic African Arts African Music Akan akuaba ancestors ancient arms artistic Ashanti balance Bamana Banyang Baoule Basinjom beautiful bird body Butuo call-and-response Cameroon carved century chief Chokwe cloth Color Plate cool costume criticism cult culture Dahomey dance dancer Defang divination dress drum drummer earth Egungun Ejagham elders eyes figure Gelede gesture Ghana gown Grasslands hands head headdress horn human Ibid icons important Informant Ivory Coast Ketu king kneeling Kongo legs leopard Liberia London Luba magic Mali Mambila mask mbira means Mossi mother motif motion move Mumuye Museum Ngbe Nigeria nsibidi old Cultivator Orangun pattern performance Personal communication phrase play raffia rhythm ritual sculpture seated Senufo singing social society song spirit staff standing stool style suggests symbolic tion traditional University Press Upper Volta village visual vitality West White Collection witchcraft witches woman women wood York Yoruba Zaire