Whalebone Mask

SQUARISH MASK IS GREY & HAS SCULPTED BROWS, NOSE, & CHEEKS. NOSE HAS HOLLOWED NOSTRILS. EYES ARE INLAID IVORY W/ BALEEN PUPILS. BELOW LOWER LIP, ON EITHER SIDE ARE 2 FOSSIL IVORY LABRETS PROTRUDING OUTWARD. BACK IS CONCAVE W/ PIERCED HOLE AT TOP W/ A LEATHER KNOTTED LOOP. SURFACES ARE PITTED W/ SOME CRACKINGS. 25 […]

Gabama a Gingungu and the secret history of twentieth-century art

Illustrations (some color), color illustration on cover. Chiefs’ masks were first made by Pende sculptors in the 1910s. The author seeks to identify the artist who made a mask (pictured in the article), currently in the Africa-Museum in Tervuren, Belgium, as Gabama a Gingungu (ca. 1890-1965). In the 1870s, most Pende sculptors were blacksmiths who […]

Ivoires sculptés des Luba, des Songye et des groupes voisins. Deuxième partie, Les pendentifs anthropomorphes / Julien Volper

Color illustrations, map.

Ivoires sculptés des Luba, des Songye et des groupes voisins. Première partie, La création montre les dents / Julien Volper

Illustrations (some color), map.

Présentation de pièces objets sculptés provenant du Maniéma et du Sankourou (Congo) E. Storms & V. Jacques

Discussion of the level of sophistication or “civilization” of the society that created the four objects presented: an ivory trumpet, incised cow horn and wooden container, and an iron axe Extracted from the Bulletin de la Société d’anthropologie de Bruxelles (Bruxelles) tome 7, 1888-1889, pages 166-168 Illustrations AFAINDEX5 pages 166-168

Whalebone Mask

ROUND MASK HAS SCULPTED FACIAL FEATURES. HAS ALMOND-SHAPED RECESSES FOR INLAID IVORY EYES W/ BALEEN PUPILS. NOSE HAS HOLLOWED NOSTRILS & MOUTH HAS IVORY TEETH). BELOW THE LOWER LIP, ON EITHER SIDE, ARE 2 IVORY LABRETS PROTRUDING OUTWARD. FRONT & BACK SURFACES OF MASK ARE HEAVILY PITTED. IN THE BACK, AT THE TOP IS A […]

Croisières a la côte d’Afrique / par M. le vice-amiral Fleuriot de Langle

Illustrations, map. Illustrations include views of Lagos, Fernando Po, the mission at Gabon, and Saint-Paul of Loanda; portraits of men from Dahomey and Gabon, Assini and Pahouin men, Fan men and women, Commi women, the pilot Joseph and Bulu men, the children’s orchestra at the Gabon mission; and chiefs of six tribes, all showing clothing, […]

Notre ivoire sculpté du Bénin

Extracted from: Bulletin des Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire (Brussels) 3e série, 1931, pages 51-55. Report on an ivory oliphant from Benin acquired by the Musée royaux d’art et d’histoire. p. 51-55 : ill

Loango Coast style sculpted ivories

Plates, pages 275-532. From the author’s PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. An overview — Documented ivories: 1850-1870 — Documented ivories: 1880-1900

Material traditions: sculpting ivory / produced by Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution

Duration: Disc 1: 73 minutes, 47 seconds. Disc 2: 73 minutes, 19 seconds. Artists: Clifford Apatiki, Jerome Saclamana, Levi Tetpon. Filmed at the Anchorage residency from March 30 to April 3, 2015 and at the Nome workshop from August 22-23, 2015. DVD. Disc 1: Introduction — Meet the artists & students — Studying a historic […]