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Art of the Maasai: 300 Newly Discovered Objects and Works of Art
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New York 1992 Hard Cover First Edition Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, ix + 160 pages, "With 195 photographs, 80 in full color"; gently used ex-library copy with
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New York: Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. First/First. An amazing collection of art with photography by Peter Beard. Near Fine with lightly sunned spine.
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Overview
This book presents for the first time 300 extraordinary ceremonial artifacts - discovered by Gillies Turle and never before seen outside the villages to which they belong - that were created over many generations by members of the Maasai tribe of Kenya. What makes their discovery particularly exciting is that high art has been found in a part of the world in which, until now, it was believed no art had ever been created. In his text, Turle talks about the significance of these objects - symbols of Maasai spiritual life used by the tribe's leader, the laibon, in ceremonies of healing, marriage, circumcision, admission into elderhood, and other crucial human occasions. We see a sculpted hippopotamus tooth, mortars made from ...