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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: West African combs
    sub title: Mina & Samir Borro collection
  title info:
    title: Peignes d'Afrique de l'ouest. English
  name:
    name part: Borro, Najwa
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Boukamel, Sarah
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Borro, Faouzi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Plisnier, Valentine
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Boyer, Alain-Michel
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: dedicatee
  name:
    name part: Neyt, François
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits ; 27 cm
  abstract: "This book is put together like a jewel and contains a carefully chosen selection of around one hundred West African combs from one of the world's largest and finest private collections of sub-Saharan African art. Featuring a hitherto unseen assortment of pieces assembled over a period of more than sixty years, the book also includes an authoritative analysis by Alain-Michel Boyer, who approached this rarely addressed theme in what was his final work, begun almost ten years ago. As well as offering us valuable insights into the cultures that produced these miniature sculptures (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria), he explores the way the form itself is approached. These creations transform what is in principle a plain accessory and in the effort to attain pure beauty, they display an aesthetic awareness that raises the adornment of the body to the level of fine art"--
  table of contents: Introduction. From ordinary combs to the ornamental combs of West Africa / Valentine Plisnier and Najwa Borro -- Hair ornaments : exalted presences / Alain-Michel Boyer -- West African combs -- The iconography of the comb as a social marker : a Baule music hammer / Sarah Boukamel and Najwa Borro -- Celebrating approval : a Guro mask / Sarah Boukamel and Najwa Borro.
  note: edited by Najwa Borro, Sarah Boukamel, Faouzi Borro et Valentine Plisnier ; with an essays by Alain-Michel Boyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: fw-----
  subject:
    topic: Ornamental combs
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Wood-carving
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Ivory carving
    geographic: Africa, West
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Borro, Samir
    topic: Art collections
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Borro, Mina
    topic: Art collections
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Ornamental combs
    topic: Private collections
    genre: Catalogs
  subject:
    topic: Peignes décoratifs
    geographic: Afrique occidentale
    genre: Catalogues
  subject:
    topic: Sculpture sur bois (Arts décoratifs)
    geographic: Afrique occidentale
    genre: Catalogues
  subject:
    topic: Ivoirerie
    geographic: Afrique occidentale
    genre: Catalogues
  subject:
    topic: Peignes décoratifs
    topic: Collections privées
    genre: Catalogues
  classification: NK4890.C63 P4513 2025
  identifier: 9788874396771
  identifier: 8874396775
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: C3L
    record creation date: 250603
    record change date: 20260412195331.1
    record identifier: in00005778347
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng