Arts and Crafts in West Africa

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.