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December 01 2007
Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary
Alisa LaGamma
Alisa LaGamma
Alisa LaGamma is curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the organizer of Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. As the Africa specialist at the Metropolitan, she has organized numerous special exhibitions and their accompanying publications, including Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (2004) and Genesis: Ideas of Origins in African Sculpture (2002–2003).
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Alisa LaGamma
Alisa LaGamma is curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the organizer of Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. As the Africa specialist at the Metropolitan, she has organized numerous special exhibitions and their accompanying publications, including Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (2004) and Genesis: Ideas of Origins in African Sculpture (2002–2003).
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2007 by the Regents of the University of California.
2007
African Arts (2007) 40 (4): 32–43.
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Alisa LaGamma; Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. African Arts 2007; 40 (4): 32–43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.4.32
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