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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book is in overall fine condition, in a good dust jacket with some evident wear, now protected in a mylar jacket. xxiv, 423 pages, approximately 260 color and 235 b/w photographs, 18 drawings, 7 maps. Cloth cover. An important work, richly presented and dealing with a topic not heavily represented in the literature of African art, this impressive volume explores the depiction of the elephant and its ivory in a wide group of African cultures. Serving as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, this profusely illustrated volume contains more than 500 illustrations (over half in color and nineteen essays that examine the role of the elephant in the ritual and art of much of sub-Saharan Africa.…