African Art
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what we have been told by Arab authors and the writers from Timbuktu, existed in Ghana, Diara, Gao, and in Manding, as well as w ...
Fragment of carved soapstone bowl, 13th-15thcentury. Zimbabwe. Steatite, 7.1 x 43.7 x 17.7 cm. South African Museum, Cape Town. ...
Carved soapstone bird, 13th-15thcentury. Zimbabwe. Steatite, height: 100 cm. Groote Schuur Collection, Cape Town. Great Zimbabwe ...
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MMo or ree AAbbuunnddaannt t DDo occuumme ennt taat tiioonn It was in the 14thcentury that European navigators began to land at ...
TS_Art of Africa_FRE_P-OK(P-6)_07.10.11.qxp 10/13/2011 8:38 AM Page 88 Mamadu and that the “veiled Zenaga of the desert” paid tr ...
TThhee AAsskkiiaa MMoohhaammmmeedd At the same epoch, in 1493, the Sonnidynasty was overturned at Gao by a Sarakolle general, Ma ...
Queen figure (Bamileke), detail. Wood, beads, glass, height: 115 cm. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. ...
Throne (Bamileke). Wood, plant fibres, and beads, height: 160 cm. Private collection. ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:50 PM Page 92 subjects of religion and politics and came to visit him at Gao in This princ ...
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The army of the askia, commanded by his brother Amar, marched against Tengella and pursued him as far as Diara, where it defied ...
The askia Mohammed, however, had become blind and, on 15 August 1529, he was dethroned by his own son Mussa. With this latter be ...
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Statuette (Agni). Wood, beads, and gold, height: 35 cm. Private collection, Paris. This statuette may have been used to transmit ...
Statue (Koulango). Ivory Coast. Wood, height: 49 cm. Private collection. The Koulango, orginially from the Volga, live in the no ...
Epa helmet mask (Yoruba). Wood, painting, 120 x 39.5 cm. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. ...
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