African Art
Arched harp (Zande). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, skin, entrails, 65.8 x 44.9 cm. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. ...
seem to experience a real pleasure in endlessly repeating or hearing the same air, as in intoxicating themselves with the same l ...
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TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 11/23/2011 4:01 PM Page 224 Kissar lyre, late 19thcentury. Nubia, Sudan. Wood, leather, entrails, glass, ...
Simbo dance accessory(Makonde). Mozambique. Wood, 63 x 8 x 14 cm. The Trustees of the British Museum, London. Used as dance acce ...
Drum (Fante), c. 1940. Ghana. Wood, height: 87 cm. Private collection, Paris. Seated on the back of a lion, while the feet of th ...
Bamekadrum (Bamileke), 19thcentury. Cameroon. Wood, 146.8 cm. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. ...
“professional” would be a more suitable designation than “learned”. It is, in fact, the appanage of the people belonging to one ...
oversights and errors are all the more abundantly met with the more distant are the epochs or the events, since many genera- tio ...
Mask (Kwele). Gabon. Wood, pigment, thick patina, height: 36 cm. Aura Collection. This mask is the representation of a forest sp ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:53 PM Page 231 Kifwebemask (Songye). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, polychromia, h ...
Drum stand (Mbembe). Cameroon. Wood, height: 66.5 cm. Private collection. A leopard’s figuration, which used to support a slit d ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:53 PM Page 233 Fetish statue (Songye). Wood, skin, beads, horn, seashells, and metal, heigh ...
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Mannish statue (Dogon). Mali. Wood, height: 49 cm. Private collection. This statue, a beautiful sample of the n’duleri style, is ...
Eyema Byeri statue (Fang). Gabon. Wood, black patina, copper, height: 57 cm. ABG Collection. As we know, Fang art has produced h ...
conclusion may be too strange a result of the premises, a paren- thesis furnishes the necessary explanations briefly and the aud ...
a crocodile” or “The young goat will browse on the leaf of the plant that nourished its mother”. Sometimes the most elevated sen ...
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