An academic exhibition catalog on Senufo art and identity in West Africa, written by art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and co-published by the Cleveland Museum of Art with 5 Continents Editions.
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Reliability tier 1: an academic exhibition catalog co-published by the Cleveland Museum of Art with 5 Continents Editions, written by a named art historian, the strongest available form for a claim about the identity and history of an art tradition. NotesFieldwork based study of Senufo art, the poro and the movement of Senufo ritual objects into Western museum and private collections, drawing on more than twenty months of fieldwork among Senufo communities in Burkina Faso (2004 to 2012) alongside archival and museum research. Documents both the poro's structure and the collecting history and attribution debates this atlas's own Senufo article describes, as distinct from Beryl Bellman's comparably standard but separate account of the Kpelle Poro of Liberia, a different Mande speaking people the atlas had previously and wrongly credited with this material.
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AuthorSusan Elizabeth Gagliardi
PublisherCleveland Museum of Art with 5 Continents Editions
Publication Year2014
Source TypeEthnography
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