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- This book describes the character and evolution of house decoration in northern Sudanese Nubia, which largely disappeared under the flooding of the Aswan Dam in 1964. The decorations were sculpted in mud-relief or painted on mud walls which dissolved on becoming damp. Unlike relief sculpture in stone they cannot be retrieved if the waters recede and the best of them are lost for ever. This book summarises the results of the only survey made of this work before it was destroyed. // Marian Wenzel took part in the two expeditions recording art in flood-threatened villages of Sudanese Nubia which were undertaken under the auspices of the Sudan Research Unit, University of Khartoum, in 1964. - PREFACE INTRODUCTION -- The Nubian People, their Homeland and Homes -- House Sources of Design -- Art of the Nubian Family -- Professional Decorators South of Wadi Halfa -- Professional Decorators North of Wadi Halfa -- The Iconography of Nubian Wall Decoration -- Aftermath of Nubian Wall Decoration -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.