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 | | The art is expressed through architectural elements like doors, baskets, costumes and textiles, furniture and furnishings, jewelry and beadwork, graphic arts, masks, pottery, musical instruments, sculpture (metal, stone, terracotta, wood), tools and equipment, toys and entertainment, and weapons and armaments. |
 | | Individual survival and cultural continuity, the fertility of humans and the flocks, the fecundity of fields and crops, the control of wild animals and sidease: these are foremost in the artist's mind. |
 | | And so it is that African art speaks a language of its own, an earthy and vigorous language of ritual and ceremony and prayer promoting the well being of community and individual. |
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