Book Review: Bosc-Tiessé, Claire and Wion, Anaïs. 2005, Peintures sacrées d’Éthiopie: Collection de la Mission Dakar-Djibouti. Paris, Sépia.

Abstract

The French ethnological expedition Dakar-Djibouti (1931-32) has been an infrequently debated event in the history of Africanist anthropology. Led by Marcel Griaule, then in his early thirties, it was conceived as both an extensive ethnographic survey and an art and artefact collecting mission to enrich the Parisian Musée du Trocadero (now the Musée de l’Homme).