1 Andrews, Jack., and Samuel Yellin. Samuel Yellin, metalworker (Ocean City, MD: Skipjack Pr., 1992), 106.
2 Andrews, Samuel Yellin, 106.
3 Ibid, 14.
4 Ibid, 5.
5 Pennington, James W. C. The fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James WC Pennington. (New York: James W. C. Pennington, 1849), 34.
6 Roberts, Allen F., Tom Joyce, Marla Berns, William Joseph Dewey, Henry John Drewal, Candice Lee Goucher, and Rowland Abiodun. Striking iron: the art of African blacksmiths. (Los Angeles, California: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2019), 84.
7 Batuman, Elif. "The Bells." The New Yorker 85, no. 11 (2009): 22-22.
8 Kaggwa, Sir Apollo. The customs of the Baganda. (Columbia University Press: New York, 1934), 160 – 161.
9 Kalinda, Cranmer, Margaret Iggulden, and Julia Allen. Walukagga the blacksmith and other stories. (Harlow: Longman, 1995), 1 - 10.
10 Kalinda, Walukagga the blacksmith, 7.
11 Elledge, John. A brief history of the world in 47 borders. (New York, The Experiment, LLC. 2024), 120.
12 Elledge, John. A brief history of the world, 277.
13 Bushkovitch, Paul. A concise history of Russia. Cambridge concise histories. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 249.
14 Davis, Myra Tolmach., and Samuel Yellin. Sketches in iron: Samuel Yellin, American master of wrought iron, 1885-1940. (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, 1971), 8.
15 Dubansky, Mindell. “A Book Arts Door by Samuel Yellin.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 9, 2017. https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/samuel-yellin.
16 Davis, Sketches in iron: Samuel Yellin, 4.
17 Ibid, 4.
18 Igumnova, T. G. Tulʹskai︠a︡ khudozhestvennai︠a︡ stalʹ XVIII-XIX vekov: katalog vystavki = 18th-19th century Tula artistic steel. (Moskva: GIM, 2015) 51 – 59.
19 Elledge, A brief history of the world, 276.
20 Igumnova, 18th-19th century Tula artistic steel, 49.
21 Bushkovitch, A concise history of Russia, 251.
22 Ibid, 262.
23 Ibid, 260.
24 Ibid, 285.
25 Andrews, Samuel Yellin, 34.
26 Ibid, 35.
27 Ibid, 35.
28 Ibid, xiii – xiv.
29 Ibid, 35.
30 Ibid, 18.
31 Ibid, 13.
32 Ibid, 9.
33 Beek, W. E. A. van. The forge and the funeral: the smith in Kapsiki/Higi culture. African history and culture. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015), 25.
34 “West African Symbolism in Ironwork across the East Coast.” Vizcaya, September 26, 2024. https://vizcaya.org/beyond-vizcaya/west-african-symbolism-in-ironwork-across-the-east-coast/.
35 Yellin, Samuel, and Thomas H Beeby. Samuel Yellin: metalwork at Yale : Yale University School of Architecture, 29 October-16 November 1990. (New Haven: Yale University School of Architecture, 1990), 15.
36 Yale New Haven Teacher Institute, September 1, 2008. https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2008/3/08.03.03/12., 8.
37 Davis, Sketches in Iron, 12.
38 Kaggwa, Customs of the Baganda, 160.
39 Roberts, Striking Iron, 85.
40 Johnson, Daniel. Blacksmithing: A Guide to Practical Metalworking, Tools and Techniques. (London: Amber Books, 2023), 46.
41 “The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.” September 1, 2008, 8.
42 Ibid, 9.
43 Ibid, 7.
44 McNaughton, Patrick R. The Mande blacksmiths: knowledge, power, and art in West Africa. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 147.
45 Beek, The forge and the funeral, 10-12.
46 Roberts, Striking Iron, 114.
47 Beek, The forge and the funeral, 42-43.
48 McNaughton, The Mande blacksmiths, 72.
49 Beek, The forge and the funeral, 22.
50 Ibid, 24.
51 Ibid, 88.
52 Ibid, 93.
53“The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.” September 1, 2008, 9.
54 D'Albe, Edmund Edward Fournier. Hephæstus: Or, The Soul of the Machine. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner,[19--?], 1925), 9 – 10.
55 McNaughton, The Mande blacksmiths, 3.
56 Ibid, 3.
57 Ibid 3-4.
58 Beek, The forge and the funeral, 48.
59 Ibid, 88.
60 Ibid, 22.
61 Ibid, 25.
62 Ibid, 21.
63 McNaughton, The Mande blacksmiths, xix.
64 Ibid, 43.
65 Ibid, 65.
66 Ibid, xxi.
67 Kaggwa, Customs of the Baganda, 160.
68 Andrews, Samuel Yellin, 14.
69 Ibid, 14.
70 Rediker, Marcus. The Amistad rebellion: An Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom. (New York: Penguin, 2013), 75.
71 Rediker, The Amistad rebellion, 75.
72 Kalibala, Ernest Balintuma. "The social structure of the Baganda tribe of East Africa." PhD diss., Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1946, 123.
73 Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion, 75.
74 Pennington, The fugitive blacksmith, 76.
75 Ibid, 99.
76 Ibid, 86.
77 Ibid, 35.
78 Ibid, 62-69.
79 Ibid 62.
80 Ibid, 76.
81 Ibid, 40.
82 Roberts, Striking iron, 45.
83 Kalibala, “The social structure of the Baganda,” 123.
84 Ibid, 60.
85 Prown, Jules David. "Mind in matter: An introduction to material culture theory and method." (Winterthur portfolio 17, no. 1 (1982), 1-19.
