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Boone, Sylvia Ardyn.

Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art / Sylvia Ardyn Boone ; photographs by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and Rebecca Busselle. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986. - xxii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. - Yale publications in the history of art ; 34 .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1979) under title: Sowo art in Sierra Leone. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 253-270.

ISBN: 0300035764 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 85019077

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Sande Society.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts, Mende.
Arts--Sierra Leone.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

LC Class. No.: NX589.6.S5 / B66 1986

Dewey Class. No.: 700.9664