African Art
Statue, Kambari style (Dogon). Wood, height: 34 cm. Typical of Dogon art’s Kambari style, this statue represents an important ti ...
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Sahara and to adventure as far as the Negroes to buy from them principally gold-powder in exchange for various sorts of merchand ...
Mask (Bangwa). Cameroon. Wood, encrusting, height: 27 cm. Private collection, Brussels. This mask from the secret society ofTroh ...
Mask of the TrohSociety (Bangwa). Western Province, Cameroon. Wood with a blackish encrusted patina, 27 x 19.7 x 27.5 cm. Musée ...
establish continuous relations by sea with the Negroes. But it was certainly not the same by the way of land. Carthage took from ...
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Mupo statue (Bamileke). Cameroon. Wood, height: 31.5 cm. Magical statues, often in the shape of pregnant women with large stomac ...
Statue (Pre-Bembe). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, height: 54 cm. S. & J. Collection. Often mixed by historical dis ...
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advanced civilisation, who were not content, like their congeners of Carthage and Abyssinia, to merely have commerce with the Ne ...
Boyostatue (Pre-Bembe). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, height: 43 cm. Aura Collection. Once part of what is now the Bem ...
Torso (Igbo). Nigeria. Wood, height: 66 cm. Private collection. Most likely part of an ensemble of life-sized painted wood figur ...
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TThhee EEmmppiirree ooff GGh haannaa We do not know at what epoch or exactly by whom was founded the kingdom which later gave bi ...
Mandinka, Sundiata Kelta, towards 1240. A populous city and a flourishing State survived pillage and defeat, but could not resis ...
Zoomorphic head, 8th-9thcentury. Central Angola. Wood, 50.5 x 15.5 cm. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. Representing a ...
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Statuettes (Djenné), 12th-15thcenturies. Terracotta, height of the horsemen: 44 cm, height of the kneeling figure: 36 cm. Privat ...
Anthropomorphic mask (Wum). North-Western Province, Cameroon. Wood, 24 x 21 x 33 cm. Charles and Kent Davis. This mask is a beau ...
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