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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...
1 Dec 23, 2009
4:45 am

CindyR
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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...
1 Dec 21, 2009
2:20 pm

lucasanart
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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...
3 Dec 20, 2009
6:33 pm

Lee Rubinstein
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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...
1 Dec 18, 2009
6:48 pm

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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...
1 Dec 16, 2009
1:35 pm

cjt0974
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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...
1 Dec 11, 2009
1:39 pm

Jaime
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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...
3 Dec 11, 2009
4:34 am

Robert Fiedler
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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...
2 Dec 11, 2009
4:33 am

M.E.F.
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Hello, I would like to know if this mask is a KUBA . Has it a particular name ? what is his purpose ? Thanks ...
1 Dec 7, 2009
11:01 pm

Richard
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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...
4 Dec 4, 2009
4:02 am

G. Wood
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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...
6 Dec 3, 2009
4:03 am

Lucas San
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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...
1 Dec 2, 2009
3:37 am

Margalit F
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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...
2 Nov 29, 2009
1:11 pm

Ed Jones
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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....
1 Nov 28, 2009
4:47 am

stellatebronze
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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...
1 Nov 27, 2009
2:15 am

cjt0974
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Hello can anyone help identify this? A friend who works in Sudan got this back for me Neil...
3 Nov 26, 2009
5:38 am

Ed Jones
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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...
5 Nov 24, 2009
7:38 pm

Lee Rubinstein
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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...
1 Nov 23, 2009
3:33 pm

lucasanart
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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...
2 Nov 23, 2009
2:59 am

Lee Rubinstein
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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...
3 Nov 22, 2009
3:24 pm

Gi Mateusen
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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...
6 Nov 21, 2009
5:08 am

David Cassera
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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...
2 Nov 13, 2009
4:15 pm

mjtroi@...
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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...
4 Nov 12, 2009
5:21 am

Veronique Martelliere
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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...
1 Nov 12, 2009
5:21 am

DC NYC
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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...
1 Nov 9, 2009
3:00 am

lobiloco
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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...
3 Nov 5, 2009
3:10 am

Richard
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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...
1 Nov 4, 2009
7:52 pm

Robert F
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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...
1 Nov 4, 2009
7:50 pm

Richard
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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...
2 Oct 25, 2009
5:31 pm

Lee Rubinstein
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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...
1 Oct 25, 2009
3:48 pm

john
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