African Art
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The Master of Buli’s stool (Hemba). Wood, height: 58 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Master of Buli received this ...
Seat attributed to the Master of the old Buli, 19thcentury. Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, 55 cm. Ethnologisches Museum, Be ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:51 PM Page 164 Mutsago headrest (Shona), late 19th-20thcentury. Wood, 14 x 21 x 8.5 cm. Jon ...
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have fastened two walls to each other, each one forming a semi- cylinder, and have covered the whole with a roof that assumes th ...
one of which is reached by means of a ladder through a hole arranged in the roof. I should also cite the grottos of the Tombo du ...
Ceremonial sword (Ashanti), 19thcentury. Ghana. Metal, 150 x 26 cm. The Trustees of the British Museum, London. ...
Bowstand: Kunda Master (Luba-Hemba), 19thcentury. Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, 64.4 cm. ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:51 PM Page 170 Spoon (Dan). Ivory Coast. Wood, pigments, fibres, height: 42 cm. Chambaud Co ...
High-backed chief’s stool (Nyamwezi), late 19thcentury. Tanzania. Wood, height: 107 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer ...
and calabashes playing the role of coffers, cupboards, and recepta- cles for all sorts of purposes. Three lumps of hardened clay ...
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TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:51 PM Page 174 Idiophone (Baoulé). Ivory Coast. Wood, metal, pearls, mirror, primate hand, ...
Statue (Luba). Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, pearls, fabric, height: 26 cm. Private collection. Women serve an essenti ...
whose origin is more mysterious. Industry is more extensive and more developed than is generally believed to be the case, even a ...
Stool (Hemba), late 19thcentury. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, 52 x 27.5 x 22 cm. The Trustees of the British Museum, ...
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TThhee FFaammi illyy aanndd tthhee TTwwo o SSyysst teemms s oof f RReel laat tiioonns shhi ipp It is commonly said that the fami ...
TS_Art of Africa_4C.qxp 10/17/2011 3:52 PM Page 180 Emumu animal sculpture of the Bobongo (Lyembe). Democratic Republic of the C ...
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