Can anyone help to identify this figure? Maybe point me in the right direction to search. Thanks Joe photos at ...
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Lee Rubinstein
leerubinstein
Jan 8, 2013 3:51 am
Try comparing with statuary attributed to the Liberian Bassa. Lee...
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Karl - Suzy Norton
exquisite_af...
Jan 9, 2013 8:42 pm
Hi, this does look like it has mostly Bassa features but the breasts don't look quite right. Hope this helps Karl ________________________________ From:...
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Lawrence
lawrence_owens
Jan 9, 2013 8:51 pm
Bassa There's a similar one on the Barakat Gallery website...
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Joseph Anderson
ironjpa
Jan 12, 2013 4:23 am
Thank you all for your help. It may not be quite what I thought it was but I learned a bit more about paying attention to all the details. Thanks again Joe...
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ironjpa
Jan 12, 2013 4:24 am
I have another mask that i am having trouble categorizing. Can any one point me in the right direction? Thanks. Joe Photos at ...
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* John Fagalde
john_fagalde
Jan 12, 2013 4:24 am
Hi Joe, Yes, probably Bassa?, Dan? from Liberia. Best wishes, John My West African Tribal Art Blog...
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Monroe, John W [HIST]
jwmonroe29
Jan 12, 2013 8:35 pm
It looks to me like a mash-up of Nigerian and Ivoirian styles. The eyes and overall shape are reminiscent of Ogoni masks, the under-eye scarification is...
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stephen.ellmann
Jan 13, 2013 5:58 pm
Some of you may already have seen the NY Metropolitan Museum's exhibit on "African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde." It's a small but very interesting...
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jan 14, 2013 2:25 am
"Market art", or art exported to Europe and western regions has been carved in Gabon, through-out the Congo and various other African countries since the 18th...
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Beth Peart
beepeawee1...
Jan 14, 2013 2:25 am
The unidentified masks you've posted look like ones I have seen with S Asian Origins. ONÍSÙÚRÙ NI YÍÒ JOGÚN AYÉ The patient person shall inherit the...
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Jeff Spurr
kalimantan3
Jan 14, 2013 2:25 am
Dear Steve et al, I have not had an opportunity to see the Met exhibit, although I hope to. Your comment prompts a couple thoughts. Ninety years ago many ...
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Herbert Moore
herb9154
Jan 14, 2013 4:28 am
Hi Ed, Thought I'd drop in and see what's new with my old pals in the African art group and, low and behold, the first post I read is from you, pontificating...
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jan 14, 2013 5:34 am
Welcome back Herb, Recomendation: This time, (as with any other), read and comprehend the posts carefully and not with cajolery or anything else. You...
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lucasanart
Jan 15, 2013 4:40 pm
Hi all, Can you give me information about this sculpture? I recently acquired this sculpture Mumuye of 1.15 meters. It seems like a rare sculpture because it...
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dleidie
Jan 15, 2013 4:42 pm
Hello, i have a shoulder mask , and i would like to know if it is made for tourists or not. I googled for these shoulder masks, and i only found masks wich in...
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Monroe, John W [HIST]
jwmonroe29
Jan 15, 2013 5:53 pm
Hi -- Your mask was probably made for tourists. The examples made for in-culture use are much more finely made. Also, it's too small to function as a...
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Mon Bakota
monbakota
Jan 15, 2013 5:54 pm
Your Mumuye seems like Chamba statue. the face is chamba but the rest of the body is mumuye. MArtine ... De: lucasanart <lucasanart@...> Objet:...
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Mon Bakota
monbakota
Jan 15, 2013 5:54 pm
Your Baga mask is recent and made only for the tourist. If you agree I can send you the picture of and original baga mask wich is already use for traditional...
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Monroe, John W [HIST]
jwmonroe29
Jan 15, 2013 6:49 pm
Dear Group -- These are very interesting messages. As a historian of material culture, I've got to say that it's too bad the collection Jeff describes got...
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Monroe, John W [HIST]
jwmonroe29
Jan 15, 2013 6:50 pm
Hello Everyone -- Since the time-honored "authenticity discussion" seems to have resurfaced, as it inevitably does here from time to time, I thought you all...
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rpearsonpeaol
Jan 16, 2013 8:49 pm
John I have a similar mask, but more signs of 'age & wear', probably "enhanced";. Mask is about 24" tall, a top of head mask. Definitely not a top of shoulder...
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rpearsonpeaol
Jan 17, 2013 12:33 am
John et al One of the earlier articles I read on Kifewbe masks stated that early European collectors liked 'bigger and with a higher crescent ridge', so the ...
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Lucas San
lucasanart
Jan 17, 2013 3:00 am
Hi Martine, The mask he wears on his head is a mask mumuye, as I have researched on the Internet. Attachment 2 images of the mask. ...
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bubblesscotch
Jan 21, 2013 7:41 pm
First, thank you for any information given on the following piece. I have attached a link to some photos I took today. A friend has given this to me to grace...
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John Buxton
wrecker104
Jan 21, 2013 10:20 pm
Please send attached images.. I don't use the online albums because it takes far more time for me to evaluate objects. JB [Description: Email logo main] John...
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lucasanart
Jan 22, 2013 5:07 pm
Hello, Is that this sculpture is Mumuye, told me the person who sold it to me, but I would like to know something about the mask he wears fantastic sculpture. ...
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carousel96
Jan 27, 2013 4:07 pm
I have had this figure for a number of years – no one has been able to figure out what it is or where it came from. It is about 10 inches tall, 4 inches wide...
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gayle
gdegregori...
Jan 27, 2013 8:44 pm
I think it's African-American...
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Ed Jones
bucit
Jan 27, 2013 8:44 pm
It is not tribal African. Try South American recent ethnographics. Ed ________________________________ From: "carol@..."...
