MS01.01.03.B02.F10.001

When European explorers invaded the
Continent of Africa during the last half of
the fifteenth century, those among them who were men
of letters wrote in their diaries the
impressions they gained upon first seeing
the "excellence of craftmanship which
abound" the "Primitive People"
they had visited. Some brought
specimens of these curios form of native artistry back
with them to Europe as sourveniers
and good-luck charms. But little did they
know that many
of the specimens of curiosity, that they
looked upon with suspicion and
disdain, would, in years to come, serve as a catalyst
for the most revolutionary break
with the traditions of the accepted
patterns of Academic art
ever to occur in man's cultural
hstory. It was from these ranks of men of art that the first wave of
black immigrants who were forced against their
wishes to come to Colonial America,
had come. They left behind in their native Africa
one of the oldest and most sophisticated
traditions making functional art
objects, known to civilized man.
Thee criminal acts of man's inhuman-
anity to man; white over black, and master over slave,
1, LOCKE, Alain, NEGRO ART PAST AND PRESENT, The Association of Negro
Folk Education, Washington, 1936, P1

When European explorers invaded the
Continent of Africa during the last haf of
the fifteenth century, those amont them who were men
of letters wrote in their diaries the
impressions they gained upon first seeing
the "excellence of craftmanship which
abound" the "Primitive People"
they had visited. Some brought
specimens of these curios form of native artistry back
with them to Europe as sourveniers
and good-luck charms. But little did they
know that many
of the specimens of curiosity, that they
looked upon with suspicion and
disdain, would, in years to come, serve as a catalyst
for the most revolutionary break
with the traditions of the accepted
patterns (?) of Academic art
ever to occur in (?) cultural
hstory. It was from these ranks of men of art that the first wave of
black immigration who were forced against their wishes to come to Colonial America,
had come. They left behind in their native Africa
one of the oldest and most sophisticated
traditionas making functional art
objects known to civilized man.
Thee criminal acts of man's inhuman
anity(?) to man; white over black, and master over slave,
I, LOCKE, Alain, NEGRO ART PAST AND PRESENT, The Association of Negro
Folk Education, Washington, 1936, P(?)