African Art
majority of whom until then seem to have practiced a religion which was a mixture of Christianity and paganism. Towards 1040, a ...
after their defeat, the religion of their conquerors, afterwards becoming the staunchest Muslims of all the western Sudan, carry ...
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Mask (Teke). Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, 34 cm. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva. ...
Mask (Bembe). Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, height: 40 cm. Private collection, New York. ...
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governor taken from the Sarakolle family of Diarrisso who, towards the end of the 11th century, did the same as the Niakhate gov ...
Statue (Tabwa). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, height: 54 cm. Felix Collection. Standing on a throne, this ancestral st ...
Statue (Lega). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, height: 14.3 cm. Private collection. This man, who appears to be walking ...
informed that the Mossi of the Yatenga had again invaded his States; he immediately marched against them and succeeded in making ...
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Statue (Soninke), 11thcentury. Mali. Wood, height: 167 cm. De Grunne Collection. The Soninke were in the Bandiagara area before ...
Male figure (Bamileke). Cameroon. Wood, height: 125 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völker ...
which he marched against his ephemeral suzerain. The two princes met in 1235 at Kirina, not far from Koulikoro, near the Niger, ...
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given the honour of royal burial of the Keïta. His people owed him this testimony of their admiration and gratitude. The Keïta o ...
Boho-na-bwetereliquary figure (Kota Mahongwe). Gabon. Wood, brass, height: 53 cm. Aura Collection. In the 1920s, the most beauti ...
Reliquary statue (Mahongwe). Wood and copper, height: 43.2 cm. Private collection. This statue represents the Mahongwe artists’ ...
reign of the mansa Suleiman (1336-1359); the latter, wishing not to be outdone in politeness, sent sumptuous presents to his Mor ...
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