Tales of Amadou Koumba-Africa

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A colorful woodcut print illustrating Senegalese folk tales, appearing mostly in columns of red, yellow, blue and green colors. At center is a human figure, one hand holding something cupped at the abdomen and the other hand slightly cupped in front of the figure's thigh. Additional human figures dance on either side, while animalistic figures, including a lion and an elephant, appear in a row above. At each bottom corner is a crocilde in a blue and green pool. The woodcut is on orange paper. Just beneath the print, handwritten in graphite, are the title [Tales of Amadou Koumba-Africa] at left, the edition [8/25] at center, and the artist's signature and date [James L. Wells '78] at right.

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