African Art
Crest (Ekoi). Wood, plant fibres, hair, leather, and ivory, height: 25 cm. Private collection. With a wooden core, this frighten ...
Statue (Tubwé). Wood, height: 36 cm. Leloup archives. Regretably, only the top portion of this statue was maintained; however, t ...
Nyibitamask (Ngeendé). Wood, height: 63 cm. Private collection. Extremely rare, this Ngeendé mask exhibits large eyes which are ...
PPeeoopplliinngg ooff AAffrriiccaa Next came the first Negroes, who reached the African continent by the southeast. They also mu ...
Statue (Vezo). Wood, height of the tallest: 57 cm. Private collection. Sakalava rules the region in which the Vezo population re ...
Statue (Lulua), 19thcentury. Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, 74 cm. Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin. ...
Asie Usu statue (Baoulé). Wood, height: 40.5 cm. Private collection. Meant to represent a spirit, this statue seems to have been ...
sented by thousands of years, during which an evolution neces- sarily took place in the primitive Negro stock. If we presume tha ...
This contact could not have taken place, or above all be prolonged, without resulting in mixtures and unions between the prehist ...
an epoch far more remote than that which is generally assigned to it and to attribute to the prehistoric peoples who preceded th ...
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by the Negroes in the valley of the Nile, whom he calls “Ethiopians”. These limits are sensibly identical with those attained by ...
Statue (Mbole). Wood, height: 58.5 cm. Private collection. Generally, Mbole statues portray hanged people. Held on wooden sticks ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:49 PM Page 35 Ancestor statue (Hemba). Wood, height: 64 cm. Private collection. Hemba artis ...
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living who claim to have received them from their most distant ancestors, beads to which the Negroes attribute a very great valu ...
Statue, Katsina region, 1st-4thcenturies CE. Terracotta, height: 295 cm. Protruding eyes and rounded features characterise the t ...
Jonyeleni female figure (Bamana). Mali. Wood, cotton, beads, string, iron, height: 65 cm. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. ...
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