Cross River Studies

Abstract

tivelv little-known area. Moreover, I had a convenient pretext. Jill Salmons and I were about to complete an article, based on fieldwork conducted during the 1970s, on the sculptural styles of the region as a whole, and we felt that such a presentation might exercise a unifying effect upon a collection of writings that could reasonably be expected to be highly varied, though describing a specific part of the world. Great emphasis was placed upon the need for original data, preferably grounded in firsthand field experience, and articles were perceived more as preliminary stages of communication than as definitive statements. The material