Arts and Crafts in West Africa

Duration: 11 min.

Year Published: 1969

Creator: FILMAS

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how art and crafts in West Africa have developed in response to the need for domestic utensils, tools, clothing , and objects of religious nature. Craftsmen create goods from leather, cloth, metal, clay, gourds, and rattan., An introduction to the traditional arts and crafts of West Africa which have developed in response to domestic needs, such as thorn carving, tie-dying, weaving chairs, decorating clay walls, and making leather hats, gourd utensils and clay pots.

Complete Record: , An introduction to the traditional arts and crafts of West Africa which have developed in response to domestic needs, such as thorn carving, tie-dying, weaving chairs, decorating clay walls, and making leather hats, gourd utensils and clay pots. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.