Hello Dear Member i'm happy to join your community and hope that you will appreciate my collection. feel free to contact me if you have a special item you...
Excuse me, something went wrong. Dear group, A short while ago I bought two relatively new Cuba cups on a auction. They are 13"/ 33 cm in hight and marked...
I recently travelled to India and bought a bronze sculpture from a man from Tibet. Bought it because I simply fell in love with it. The seller was quite...
hello, I will send some pictures of two masks. I will appreciate of somebody can help me to help to identificate these masks. I suppose they are of Nigeria....
I, John Ewere own a Art gallery in Nigeria and Lome, i am currently in search of art collectors, exhibitors from America and Asian interested in Contemporary...
The remaining few masks I picked up for myself in Burkina Faso have finally been photographed and uploaded - nothing more than an exercise in sharing as I have...
it most definatly is over 50 years old, ive just uploaded a brighter picture that someone has manage to sort out for me using my previous one, unsure if this...
I'm hoping that members of the group will be able to provide more information on an old Bambara Mask that we acquired from the Malkin Collection about 10 years...
I have this african figure, I am persuming its male figure: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/African_Arts/photos/album/1143208392/pic/1510996603/view Full...
I have recently come back from a few weeks in Burkina Faso (what a great country) and of course brought back a few masks with me - some older and some new. For...
Hi, I recently acquired a mask in Congo (DRC). It was identified as a rare Kuba warrior mask and it came from a village near Mweka in Kasai-Occidental. So far...
Hello group, I am in the process of a donation and I need to put a value on a Songye Mask. It as been authentified by expert and it as typical résine in the...
I recently purchased this mask, which was once in the collection of Simon Ottenberg; he is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of...
Hello all, I am writing this time to request help in identifying a piece that I collected some years ago. It came from the collection of a Lega dealer who...
Hi Group! Was able to purchase a few pieces the other day and wanted to ask about this figure. I beleive it is Fante , but was wanting the opinion and input of...
Hello African art lovers, Can somebody help me to indentify this sculpture? It looks very old to me, has cracks and traces of woodworm and all kind of small...
I would like to know if the smaller Lega masks/maskettes (lukwakongo)should typically have a flat back. Is there a convention for these masks with regard to...
I purchased this mask in the open air art market south of Luanda in 2005: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/African_Arts/photos/album/2030710420/pic/list I bought...
New user, Hello to all, I am handling a collection of about a 1000 africain objets mainly from the République démocratique du Congo - RDC (Kongo). Of this...
Hello all, Im a new into African art. I have the opportunity to buy the following Nkisi, which I found very attractive. Could someone help me to see if it...
A little background first! I work at a Zoo and am the assistant buyer for the gift shop. We carry an unusally large amount of African art, the smaller things...
Dear All I have recently been charged with the task of writing up some objects in an old collection. Attributions are sometimes questionable. I shall do my...
I thought this may interest you all. Enjoy the read! http://io9.com/5874044/ancient-african-sculpture-discovered-after-2000-years-in-the-mud ~Brooke I...
I've just come back from a trip part exploring / part collecting in Burkina Faso and there were a couple of masks acquired intrigued me so I thought others...
The Circle-Dot design (symbol 26:8) used in Lega decoration can also be found in Luba, Pende and Songe pieces, as well as Ashante weights (where it seems to be...
Hi, I bought 12 years ago a statue in Kenya, near Mt. Kenya at a "souvenir shop". It lied in the dim background among some dusty objects in the dark. I have...
