African and African-American Art and Lifeways

Includes notes on African and African-American art; slavery; African chiefs; Ashanti religion/life including the use of Ashanti gold weights; slavery in the Americas including Joseph Towles' diagrams of slave trade routes in Africa; Ku Klux Klan propaganda; black folk music of Alabama; maroons of Jamaica; photographs of African people, art, plans for murals; African-American art; material regarding the South Carolina lowcountry, including photographs and color slides of Joseph Washington and Joseph Deas depicting island life (circa 1965). Slides depict people, architecture, net fishing and Louise Gaillard making sweetgrass baskets. Includes prints and postcards of The Old Plantation painting and African-American slave sculptures as well as an undated photostat of a plantation slave registry [see Oversize].