I am posting an album of recently collected African Sculptures and was hoping someone in our group would be able to look through the album and recognize the...
Bonjour, I would like that to give me all the information that you may about these two stone sculptures. I think one is a Dogon pierre and the other is a...
I have posted a few pictures of three items in my collection. I am looking for any information on them. I know the mask is a dan and the staff and figures are...
Hello...I Purchased These 2 Items At An Estate Sale In Lake Forest Illinois..I Found Out A Little About Them & Would Appreciate Any Other Opinions Or...
I have posted a few pictures of a mask I have. My question is: There are what appears to be thorns or small wood tacks that held on the cloth; anyone ever...
I recently purchased this mask as belonging to Kwifon Society, but its similarity to those of their neighbors Bangwa of the Troh Society (a council of nine...
Hello Group, I've been researching two interesting pieces and would like some some help in identification. The first is a Niger Delta headdress with cross...
I attended. I could not get over the easy with which six and seven figure sums rolled off the bidders. All my friends who sell the kind of things most of us...
My wife and I have recently returned from living in Gabon the past two years. While there I purchased a few masks that I liked the looks of. I beleive these...
I will be in Houston during February of next year, and would like to search out some African art (traditional and contemporary). The Museum of Fine Arts has a...
I have had a very bad experience with them (one hand does not know what the other does, because of the Brussels-Paris location, clumsy jerkey communication...
hello Group, there is a nice selection of African Art being offered in the upcoming Rago Estates auction this Saturday DEC 5th. Please browse the Tribal arts...
Hello, is anyone registered with www.AUCTION.FR ? I am trying to get images from an old Beaussant Lefevre auction ( 9 Juin 2004). Particularly lots 7, 8 and 9....
I had bought a few dogon items this past weekend. All the items look to be old and was hoping someone out there would be able to help in maybe to identify the...
Hello, I have received two separate email announcements for a Pierre Berge Auction of Arts Premiers material scheduled November 23. But when I check the PBA...
Hola a tod@s, Acabo de entrar en este grupo gracias a un amigo que me lo ha recomendado. He visto que muchos de vosotros teneis muchas piezas y muy buenas, que...
To all of you good day. I was happy, while surfing on the net, to come across your group. I have a small collection of ivory statues that are quite remarkable...
I have a small monolith (25cm) carved in basalt, in a different style. Lots of these were found when a new road was dug near Hong in Adamawa State and I...
Hello, A dealer presented me a nigerian monolith (H: +- 80 cm) because I never saw such a piece in real I'm looking for your opinion. I posted the pictures in...
I have always steered clear of Kurumba masks (or so-called Kurumba masks) because of something that William Fagg wrote as long ago as 1965. Describing such a...
Hello all, I ran across what I consider to be a very interesting Antelope mask today. It appears quite old, wood is very light and dry. My question concerns...
Hi I recently posted this Zombo figure on my website http://www.ancienttribal.com/ZomboFetishFigure.html I don't know much about Zombo other than the info I...
To those who do't yet know Sotheby's will not hold A Tribal Art auction in New York this November. There will be a Tribal auction at Sotheby's Paris in...
Same questions as in my previous post about this one. Thanks Album : senufo2 :http://groups.yahoo.com/group/African_Arts/photos/album/1275927462/pic/list...
Greetings to all. Recently I've launched a new African Art web site and wanted to share it with the group. Please preview the site and if there are any...
Hi, I'd like to learn more about this little figure. Is it really a senufo? Is it authentic? It looks well old bud is it really? Somebody wants to sell it to...
Hi, being relatively new in this field I'm really getting into it! I found these 2 masks today and photographed them.Can anyone tell me if they are a great...
Bonjour Group, I found this item some weeks ago on ebay – correct,I have no shame – and bought it because its possible function intrigued me. Presumably...