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Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa • Suzanne Preston Blier • James Morris • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • A photographic survey of adobe buildings throughout West Africa, including the great mosque at Djenne (the largest mud building in the world), ordinary houses and huts, arches, domes, colonnades, grillwork and other architectural feats. (WAF70, $50.00)
Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa • Barbara Frank • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • A nicely illustrated scholarly cultural history of Mande-speaking craftspeople in West Africa. Dispersed throughout Mali and West Africa, Mande potters and leatherworkers form a distinct social class, where women make ceramics and the men work in leather. (WAF61, $27.95)
Travels in West Africa • Mary Kingsley • Anthony Brandt • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • A wild success in its first printing in 1897, this account of a naive Victorian woman's experiences in West Africa is fascinating. Kingsley writes with a self-deprecating wit and deadpan humor of her collecting expeditions throughout West Africa. (WAF05, $14.00)

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