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Under The Tree|Episode 20: Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum, Columbia, Maryland (Part 2) Episode
Part 2 of the interview with Mrs. Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum in Columbia, MD. This museum features art from a variety of tribes. In adddition, it's housed in a house that is on a former plantation called Oakland.
This episode covers:
Masks worn by African women and their role in African societyFundraising effortsThe Door of No Return Young People
www.africanartmuseum.org
Photo c/o the Rhys Carpenter Library for Art, Archaelogy and Cities at Bryn Mawr College. It is a Sande Society mask or sowo-wui, worn by Mende women of Sierra Leone. For more information on this mask, http://www.brynmawr.edu/collections/Exhibitions/exh-mende.shtml
[ Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:03:00 GMT ]
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