Thirty large, ready-to-color illustrations, all adapted from traditional African designs, reflect the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Carefully rendered from authentic artifacts are a Moorish textile pattern, an Ashanti carved door panel, an antelope-shaped wooden headdress from Mali, an Ethiopian cross, and other motifs. Dover Original.
Here's a sample of other books in this Dover category
Traditional African Designs by Gregory Mirow Over 200 authentic designs from Dahomey, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Ghana, other African nations depict such unusual configurations as stylized lions, birds, fish, alligators, totemic figures, abstracts, geometrics, and zigzags.
African Designs CD-ROM and Book by Dover Authentic, black-and-white African artwork, adapted from motifs on textiles, masks, jewelry, and other sources, depicts 235 dynamic images, among them stylized lions, fish, birds, totemic figures, abstracts, and border configurations.
African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson, Yuko Green Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.
African Plains Coloring Book by Dianne Gaspas-Ettl Forty-one realistic scenes of wildlife in their natural habitats, including a giraffe at a water hole and a cheetah with its young on an abandoned termite mound. Captions.
African Punch-Out Masks by A. G. Smith, Josie Hazen Six colorful, exotic masks, including a hyena mask from Mali and a Bakuba dance mask from the Congo, are ideal for social studies projects, parties, as room decorations, more. No scissors needed.
