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Tribal Art Reference is a reference website about the literature and the art works themselves of traditional and contemporary African, Oceanic, native American and tribal Asian art. It is geared towards the collector, dealer or curator who is searching for references to articles, books, catalogues and pictures of objects of a specific region or ethnic group.
On the one hand, it provides searchable indexes to more than 33,000 articles of the main journals on that topic. Most of the results are linked to the full text of the article when digitally available (not necessarily for free though!). The indexed magazines and journals are listed here under.
And it offer lists of books in different formats. Probably, the most useful should be the selected list of recommended books, organized by region and country; presently it covers only Africa and the Amazon region but this should be extended in the future. The website also includes a list of recently published books which I recommend and a blog on my latest readings. Finally, it includes my library as this covers a much larger number of works (2.000 and still indexing !) than the recommended list.
On the other, it incorporates the internal search engines of the major museums and auction houses. This allows the user of this website to access the pictures and descriptions of millions of objects from a single webpage ! As this is heavy stuff, to allow for smooth browsing, the search engines have been spread over three pages: European museums, American and Australian museums and auction houses.
Finally, it includes the full catalogues of most auction houses, specialized antiques fairs and dealers.
The list of indexed magazines and journals is as follows :