I tend to agree that many of the best recent pieces are painted. And the relatively few older ones that are painted are also usually quite captivating. I've...
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ANTWAN N MARTIN
martin_antwan
Jul 20, 2007 8:40 pm
Hello all! Staying on the subject of painted masks, I have uploaded 3 pics of a headdress to a file named ANM. Sorry, the pics aren't great as I have not...
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RAND (Rand African Art)
denverrand
Jul 21, 2007 2:51 am
The topic of painted African masks and objects is also one that I enjoy very much and I'm enjoying the spirit of everyone sharing some of their objects with...
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RAND (Rand African Art)
denverrand
Jul 21, 2007 2:55 am
Corrected link for the firespitter mask I mentioned in my message below: http://www.randafricanart.com/Senufo_Kponyugo_painted.html "RAND (Rand African Art)"...
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dwolf22@...
nashoni_art
Jul 21, 2007 12:04 pm
Hmmm.... Looking around to see what I might have to bring to this painted pot-luck.... not much really ... but can't show up empty handed! I put a few pics in...
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M.E.F.
mfliegelmann
Jul 21, 2007 12:04 pm
Anyone wanting to know about Ekoi masks may read Keith Niclin of the Horniman Museum in London for a comprehensive and definitive discussion. M ... Luggage?...
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aimeeloka
Jul 21, 2007 12:05 pm
The figures on top of this mask are similar to figures that can be found on the tops of old Yoruba Magbo masks. See, for example, the picture on page 139 of...
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Ann Porteus
annporteus
Jul 21, 2007 12:42 pm
Yes Daniel, ... In Mali and Niger they tell me that in the sun "black man goes blue and white man goes red" I love the beaches with the whites in Bikini lying...
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M.E.F.
mfliegelmann
Jul 22, 2007 6:38 am
Errata: it is Keith Nicklin and not as in the previous post. M ... Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links....
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Alexander Bortolot
lyautua
Jul 22, 2007 7:02 pm
Hello all, I'm coming late to this discussion thread and have only skimmed the entries, but am finding it most interesting! Mozambican Makonde sculptors use a...
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Lee Rubinstein
leerubinstein
Jul 23, 2007 12:04 am
Alexander: I did find some references in which the use of termite and/or ant mound materials are used to produce either ochre-like or yellow pigmentation --...
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J. Hood
painter38
Jul 23, 2007 12:58 am
Hello Todd: Thanks kindly for the info on the 2 metal figures. The Ghana/Ashanti lost wax castings. Your attribution seems dead-on. Whatever their exact age,...
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jul 23, 2007 1:46 am
Maybe I am wrong, but the use of "graphite"; pigmentation(s) very well might be charcoal or clay (e.g: mud --- particularly fermentied, as with the use of...
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Bob Ibold
bobbold2000
Jul 23, 2007 4:19 pm
Lee, Sorry to take so long to respond to your pics of painted Africans. Your painted pieces blew me away. I would have never suspected you had so much raucous...
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congabongoman
Jul 25, 2007 8:20 pm
Hi all- I wanted to ask the group about one of the pieces I included in my album "Masks, etc. from DRC." It's a Kusu fetish figure that stands about 20" tall...
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Andrew
turley19at
Jul 25, 2007 10:49 pm
This is a delayed response to the painted mask sharing but last month I came back from 3 weeks in Mali (part collecting and part exploring)and I have been...
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congabongoman
Jul 26, 2007 8:14 pm
I wanted to follow up to the group with a postscript on Tetela masks. As some of you pointed out, there has apparantly been debate by some top scholars over...
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craig lewis
craig_n_emma
Jul 27, 2007 11:26 am
Chris, there is a mask on Merton Simpsons website described as BaTetela http://www.mertonsimpsongallery.com/africmain.htm I hope this is another example of...
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congabongoman
Jul 27, 2007 12:59 pm
Thanks, Craig! That's one I've never seen before. Do you have any pictures of your figure? I have a small wooden Lega figure from the Bwami society with...
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congabongoman
Jul 27, 2007 2:03 pm
Fyi- I just heard back from Marc Felix, a noted expert from Belgium, who offered the following in response to the pictures of the "Tetela" mask I sent him: ...
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ubaniaz2003
Jul 28, 2007 6:14 pm
Hello...I'm new to the group and have been collecting African sculpture for about 12 years. I used to buy all my used auction catalogs from Empherarts in New...
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KARErescue
Jul 29, 2007 11:10 pm
I have two large carvings done on wood, I think it's oak. They are about 33" tall. I am trying to find information on what "type" of carving they are, or...
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jul 29, 2007 11:42 pm
Hello Tonya. I think these are market carvings without any specific attributions. Additionally, they may have been carved in Africa or perhaps, Indonesia. It...
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Paul De Lucco
pauldelucco
Jul 30, 2007 3:58 pm
Chris, No one has studied the confused art history of the north Katanga/south Kivu area of DRC like Marc Felix. He brought a lot of study and intellectual...
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KARErescue@...
KARErescue
Jul 30, 2007 3:58 pm
Thanks for the info Ed. :)? I had picked these up at a yard sale and have them on ebay, but they are such gorgeous carvings I was dying to know where they may...
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John Monroe
jwmonroe29
Jul 30, 2007 5:03 pm
Wow, Paul! What a useful and informative post about the Tetela. Thanks very much. This is exactly why I subscribe to the group, and why I think it's such a...
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congabongoman
Jul 30, 2007 8:41 pm
Paul- Thanks so much for your excellent post. I certainly do take Felix's opinion seriously and didn't mean to imply otherwise by the tone of my post. I simply...
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congabongoman
Jul 30, 2007 9:06 pm
p.s. Another factor influencing my opinion is my belief that all our current knowledge of african art (like any other knowledge) is based on past observation....
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jul 30, 2007 10:56 pm
Tonya, you would be amazed at the skill and "speed" carvings like these can be made. By the way, if oak wood is actually used, this would probably be a good...
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John Buxton
wrecker104
Jul 31, 2007 4:29 pm
I have followed this thread on the Tetela and have the following to offer. In the 1970's I handled the John Noble White Collection of African art. Much of this...
