African Art
Sango shrine figure with musicians (Yoruba), early 20thcentury. Wood, height: 73.5 cm. Ian Auld Collection. The Yoruba deity of ...
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Then began what was very improperly called the “Moroccan domination of Sudan”: first, there was no domination except over a smal ...
Figure (Oni), late 16thcentury. Nigeria. Zinc-brass, 37 cm. Museum of Ife Antiquities, Ife. ...
Memorial head (Akan), 17th-19thcenturies. Ghana. Terracotta, 33 x c. 19 x c. 18 cm. Private collection. Female artists created m ...
Mbokocup bearer (Luba). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, height: 35 cm. Private collection. The soothsayer Bilumbuis evok ...
Cup bearer (Yoruba). Nigeria. Wood, pigment, pearls, height: 37 cm. Chambaud Collection. Olowé of Isé made this cup which illust ...
about 1667 he attacked the fortress built by Biton. The siege still continued in 1670 and Mama-Magan, despairing of its coming t ...
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TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:50 PM Page 110 Statue (Jukun). Nigeria. Wood, height: 8 cm. S. & J. Calmeyn Collection. ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:50 PM Page 111 Statue (Lobi). Ivory Coast. Wood, height: 81.5 cm. Private collection. The T ...
This EI-Hadj Omar, who thus captured three powerful States in the space of eight years, was a Tukulor of the Torodo caste, the o ...
Muslims united against the cruel despotism of Ahmadu and his brothers. Thus the French troops, sent to put order into this chaos ...
Statue (Tellem). Mali. Wood, encrusted materials, (left) height: 40 cm; (right) height: 44 cm. Private collection. Before the Do ...
Ashanti head of the fanti style, 16th-17thcenturies. Terracotta, height 28 cm. Private collection. Either placed over a grave or ...
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French Guinea, the Timne and Bulom of Sierra Leone, sometimes isolating them in more or less extensive islets in the interior of ...
Statue (Afo), maternity. Wood, height: 29 cm. Private collection. The facial scarifications on this statue are typical of the Af ...
Dyonyenistatue (Bambara). Wood and metal, height: 72 cm. Fertility is clearly referenced in the over-sized breasts of this incre ...
source of excellent functionaries and subaltern employees, as also among their eastern neighbours the Gan of Accra. In continuin ...
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