History of art . THE TROPICS 169 However, if we revert to the earliest times we dis-cover an Africa that was probably identical with whatit is at this hour, and consequently on the same levelwith that of the tribes that peopled the north and thewest of Europe—perhaps on a higher level. War and. Africa. Bushman fresco on stone. {Copy in the Trocadero.) commerce created constant relationships between an-cient Egypt and the Sudan, and Central Africa par-ticipated in the development of the civilization of theNile. From that period on, iron was worked in Nigritia,while the old world hardly knew yet
History of art . THE TROPICS 169 However, if we revert to the earliest times we dis-cover an Africa that was probably identical with whatit is at this hour, and consequently on the same levelwith that of the tribes that peopled the north and thewest of Europe—perhaps on a higher level. War and. Africa. Bushman fresco on stone. {Copy in the Trocadero.) commerce created constant relationships between an-cient Egypt and the Sudan, and Central Africa par-ticipated in the development of the civilization of theNile. From that period on, iron was worked in Nigritia,while the old world hardly knew yet how to work inbronze, and the African jewelry that is still made bythe Somalis of East Africa, the Pahouins, the Ashantis,and the Haoussas of West Africa, was brought bycaravans from the confines of Upper Egypt to themarkets of Thebes and Memphis. The jewelry isheavy, of a thick and compact material, with incrusta-tions of blue and red stones whose opaque glow spots the circles of mat gold or of somber silver. Geo-12 170 MEDIAEVAL ART metrical figures are dear to all primitive peoples,whether they paint their pots, decorate their huts,weave their clothing, or stripe the skin of their faces or their bodies; and cutting intothe African jewelry in everydirection we find again thesegeometr
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