. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. ng brain that looks out through mournful, warning eyes,seeing under the white shade of the strange-horned (Ammonite)crest that bears the mystery of the Tetragrammaton upon itsupturned front. Over her full bosom, mother of myriads as shewas, hangs the same symbol. Her face has a Nubian cast, herhair wavy and plaited, as is meet. Another critic says: The mission of the Sibyl ... is not to lure men on todestruction—she is the custodian of secrets, the secrets of Africaand the A
. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. ng brain that looks out through mournful, warning eyes,seeing under the white shade of the strange-horned (Ammonite)crest that bears the mystery of the Tetragrammaton upon itsupturned front. Over her full bosom, mother of myriads as shewas, hangs the same symbol. Her face has a Nubian cast, herhair wavy and plaited, as is meet. Another critic says: The mission of the Sibyl ... is not to lure men on todestruction—she is the custodian of secrets, the secrets of Africaand the African race. And how close she keeps them, with herlocked lower limbs, her one hand pressing her chin as if to keep inthe torrent of words that threatens to burst forth, while theother grasps a scroll covered with strange characters, whichwould recall much could we be permitted to decipher it. As such. Art immortalizes the ideals which Sojourner Truthsuggested to Americas greatest author-sculptor, W. W. Story,whose Libyan Sibyl he considered his best work.^ 3 Story and his Friends, by Henry James, Vol. II, p. \%HiHGTorf C fkivmQtVoDmjs
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