African Art
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TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:50 PM Page 122 Mask (Tetela). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, feathers, fur, height ...
Mask (Gouro Bete). Ivory Coast. Wood, height: 26 cm. Private collection. ...
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TThhee HHa auus saa CCo ouunnt trriiees s If we have fewer documents on the ancient history of central and eastern Sudan than on ...
Replica throwing knife, late 19thcentury. Mahdist state, Sudan. Iron with crocodile skin grip, 30.6 x 3.2 cm. University of Manc ...
Aloalo tomb sculpture (Mahafaly). Madagascar. Wood, height: 226.6 cm. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthro ...
century. Until then, Muslims were hardly to be met with except at Kano, and here they were not numerous. It is to the mystic zea ...
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Bonnet (Acholi?). Uganda. Human hair, beads, width: 33 cm. Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig. Identified as of “Schuli” (Acholi) o ...
Pole (Kwere/Zaramo). Tanzania. Wood and metal, height: 128 cm. Private collection. Likely used in ceremonies of spirit possessio ...
In reality, this Saefe was most certainly a Negro of Teda origin, who established his residence at Njimi, between Mao and Yagubr ...
Gassaro or Kasr-Eggomo, 75 kilometres to the west of Chad. It was this Ali who attacked the kanta of the Kebbi and was defeated ...
Iraqw skirt, early 20thcentury. Tanzania. Dressed animal skin, glass beads, sinew thread, metal bells, 170 x 70 cm. Commonwealth ...
Hachem, successor of Omar, was attacked in 1893 by the adventurer Rabah; in spite of the help sent him by the Wadai, he was defe ...
nominal sovereign. Another of his sons, Tchigama, deposed his brother, was arrested by order of Saboun, was brought as prisoner ...
Ndimu face mask (Makonde), early 20thcentury. Southern Tanzania. Wood, white pigment, plant fibres, height: 47 cm. Museum für Vö ...
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Kigango funerary post (Giryama). Kenya. Wood, height: 130.5 cm / 190 cm / 206.5 cm / 145 cm. Private collection. Despite a consi ...
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