African Section

Vol. XI / No. 1-2

By: H. A. Weischhoff

II. The Cultures of Africa: The African Collections of the University Museum

Most of us have vague ideas about other peoples, and only rarely are we aware of the complexities underlying the […]

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Vol. XI / No. 1-2

By: H. A. Weischhoff

I. Africa’s History: The African Collections of the University Museum

General Historians who are accustomed to reconstruct history from written documents or from tablets or papyri do not find a […]

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Vol. XI / No. 1-2

By: H. A. Weischhoff

Introduction: The African Collections of the University Museum

AFRICA was the last continent to be drawn into the orbit of European interest. Less than a hundred years ago […]

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Vol. XI / No. 1-2

By: H. A. Weischhoff

Preface: The African Collections of the University Museum

VISITORS to the galleries of a museum which, like the University Museum, exhibits the arts and crafts of non-European peoples, […]

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Vol. VII / No. 1

By: H. U. H.

The West African Expedition: November, 1936 - June, 1937

THE Expedition was undertaken by the Museum with the aid of a grant from the American Philosophical Society, for the […]

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Vol. VI / No. 6

By: H. U. Hall

The African Expedition

Mr. Henry U. Hall, who is conducting investigations for the Museum among primitive tribes in Sierra Leone, Africa, writes the […]

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Vol. V / No. 6

African Negro Art

THE University Museum has received from the Museum of Modern Art in New York a copy of African Negro Art, […]

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Vol. IV / No. 3

By: E. H.

An African Wood-carving

AN addition to the African Collection has been made through the gift by Mrs. William Godfrey of the fetish figure […]

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Vol. IV / No. 1

The African Galleries

THE formal opening of the galleries of the African Section of the Museum will take place on the afternoon of […]

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Vol. III / No. 6

By: H. U. H.

The African Collections

THROUGH the recent assignment of a greater amount of room to the African collections than was formerly available, it is […]

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