[AFRICA] - GRIAULE (Marcel). Dogon masks. - Lot 2

[AFRICA] - GRIAULE (Marcel). Dogon masks. A monumental work presenting for the first time an exhaustive study of the ritual masks of the Dogons of Mali. Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, Musée de l'Homme, Palais de Chaillot, place du Trocadéro (16e), 1938. Collection Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie - XXXIII. Large in-8 volume (270 x 210 mm). Publisher's bradel green percaline boards, smooth spine decorated with title in gilt lettering. VIII, 896 pp. XXXII plates. Margins a little browned. First edition of this pioneering work of ethnology applied to African arts and rituals. Devoted to the Dogon culture, this study includes an extensive introduction, followed by transcriptions of several myths and ceremonies, as well as associated masks, accessories and art. It is illustrated with black and red compositions in the text and 32 plates of black photographic reproductions at the end of the volume. A copy complete with its Dogon music vinyl, on which the steps of two Dogon dances have been reproduced.