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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history.  
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Featuring many one-of-a-kind crafts, household and decorative objects. Items found in our store are produced exclusively for the Museum by artisans and craftspeople and imported directly from Africa.
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African Forms

African Forms

African Forms elevates objects of daily use such as pottery, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and weapons to genuine works of art, concentrating on non-figural utilitarian objects. Exhibition catalogue by Marc Ginzberg with Foreword by Jack Lenor Larsen. 

Catalogue published by Skira editore, Milano, 2000. pp. 297. Cloth: ISBN 88-8118-735-3. Paper: ISBN  88-8118-838-4. Addendum edited and written by Frank Herreman with conversations by Frank Herreman and Donald Albrecht, Paola Antonelli, Patricia J. Darish, Ekpo Eyo, Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome, Roy Sieber. Addendum published by Museum for African Art, New York,  February 2001. pp. 32. Paper: ISBN: 0-945802-31-5. LCCN: 00-135143.