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Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood and Metal: The Doorway
Welcome to
Cutting to the Essence,
Shaping for the Fire, an experimental
on-line catalog of an exhibit first presented at the
Lakeview Museum of
Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois in 1994.
We present the catalog in three sections:
At the bottom of each page you will find navigational buttons and text
to help you investigate and move between the three parts of the site.
Cutting to the Essence and
Shaping for the Fire are each a series of several pages which you can move through
simply by clicking the MORE button at the bottom of each page of the
Yoruba or Akan sections. The
Doorway section, however, is the section in which we not only introduce
the exhibit and ourselves, but also give you easy access to
the scaffolding beneath the exhibit-essays, and is thus
not sequential. So at the bottom of pages in that
section, in addition to the buttons that will enable you to move to the Yoruba
or Akan material,
you will see the entire contents of Doorway section, just as you
see below in the Peer Beyond the Doorway list. Finally,
with few exceptions (notably in the
Introductory Essay and the Akan
Goldweights and Proverbs pages), the photos and diagrams you will find here are links to their corresponding
catalogue entry, making it easy for you to read a brief description of each piece.
Whether you have come here by chance or at the request of your
instructor, we welcome you to the exhibit. We extend special greetings
to students of Professor Miranda Marvin of Wellesley and to those of
Professor Charles Davis of
Mississippi Valley State University. We have been developing a page
on teaching resources for
those
interested in incorporating this site or other WWW materials into their
courses, and encourage your feedback.
Feel free to
comment on your experience and
impressions. Thank you for visiting!
Note:
You will be best able to view the images in relation to
the text if you are using Netscape.
Peer Beyond the
Doorway:
Acknowledgements *
Introductory
Essay *
Behind
the
Exhibit
(Biographical Info) * Bibliography *
Catalogue of
the
Exhibition and
Context
Photos
and Diagrams *
Links to
Exhibits
Elsewhere *
Technical
Notes *
Comment Form *
Cutting to the Essence:
href="/view-hotwired/http://www.hotwired.com/worldsurf/index.htm">History *
The
Gods *
The
Kings *
The God-
King, Sango *
Man and the Gods *
Shaping: The
Blacksmith *
Cutting: The
Woodcarver
Shaping for the Fire:
Akan and
Asante
History and the
Gold
Trade *
Gold-
Handling
Equipment *
Goldweights:
Lost-Wax
Casting,
Weight System,
Designs, and
Symbolism *
Akan
Goldweights and
Proverbs
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Last updated 15 September 1995.