Africa Native and Tribal Visual Arts

Tribal arts comprise items made by tribal peoples, usually with utilitarian or ritual purposes, with artistic qualities reflecting the cultures in which they were made. Sites included in this category have significant information about African tribal objects, their aesthetics, and/or their functions.

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• Nerart - Swiss exhibition venue dedicated to contemporary African arts, crafts and design. Site is multilingual.
  
• UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Emphasis on works from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present.
  
• African Sculpture - Images of a private collection.
  
• Ethnix Gallery of African Art & Tribal Artifacts - New York dealer.
  
• Shona Sculpture - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.
  
• Ralph Proctor Gallery - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.
  
• Pan-Africa - Multilingual categorized collection of links to sites about African art.
  
• Art of Africa - Bushmen/San arts and crafts from the Kalahari.
  
• deYoung Museum African Collection - Extensive collection of images and information from the San Francisco museum.
  
• African Art Center - Nonprofit organization promoting black artists and craftspeople of KwaZulu Natal and South Africa.
  
• Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.
  
• Axis Gallery - Gary van Wyk's gallery, with exhibitions. Emphasis on South Africa.
  
• African Art Collection - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.
  
• Art Creations Africa - Stone sculpture gallery and exhibitions of work of African artists, including Shona Stone sculpture.
  
• Hamill Gallery of African Art - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.
  
• Azani Stone Gallery Zimbabwe Shona Sculpture - Zimbabwe Shona stone sculpture, including busts, abstracts and wildlife art.
  
• Joy Christie's Gallery - Dallas, Texas dealer in tribal arts and artifacts,contemporary paintings and original jewelry featuring tribal components.
  
• African Art Course - Materials for a University of Virginia course on African arts, with images, bibiliographic information, and web links.
  
• Emory University Collection of African Art - An exhibition of part of the university's permanent collection of African art. Good accompanying essays on various aspects of African art.
  
• Adire African Textiles - Hand-woven textiles including Ashanti kente and adinkra, Ewe kente, Yoruba adire and aso oke, Kuba raffia cloths, and Bogolan mud cloth from Mali.
  
• African Millennium Foundation - International trader and exhibitor of Zimbabwean Shone stone sculptures. Site displays news about recent events and images from exhibitions and galleries held in Toronto and London.
  
• Dimondstein Tribal Arts - Many images and information on African tribal art.
  
• Africa In Stone - Zimbabwean Shona sculpture in materials such as African jade, serpentine, and soapstone.
  
• Sculptures of Zimbabwe - Gallery of Shona stone sculpture..
  
• Africarts - Collection of African art objects: exchange of information and/or of objects
  
• Africa Cultural Gallery & Kumbu Kumbu Gallery - Contemporary African sculpture, batiks, watercolors and oil paintings.
  
• Yahoo! Groups: AfricanAntiques - Discussion board on African art.
  
• Sukuma Museum - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).
  
• Adinkra Symbols of West Africa - A guide to the Asante traditional symbols, with photos of adinkras in use.
  
• Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.
  
• Galerie Peter Herrmann - A commercial gallery. Bilingual (German and English), with many images of African items. Also has a section describing ongoing African art related exhibitions and events elsewhere.
  
• Rand African Art - Images of a private collection with lots of pictures and information.
  
• African Odyssey Interactive - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
  
• Masks and More - Masks, African art and primitive paintings.
  
• Douglas Yaney - African tribal art objects, with sections for items likely to interest the beginner and those likely to interest more advanced collectors.
  
• Komaland - Personal collection and background information about Koma sculptures.
  
• H-AfrArts Expressive Cultures of Africa - A seriously scholarly site, with moderated discussion boards. From Michigan State University.
  
• Ryann Willis Ancient Art - Dealer specializing in ancient African arts (mostly terracotta), with nice exhibitions.
  
• National Museum of African Art - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Exhibitions, articles, and museum calendar of events.
  
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.
  
• AfricaClub - Wide assortment of arts and crafts, with considerable cultural background on the objects.
  
• Akan Cultural Symbols - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.
  
• Gallery Quackelbeen - Brussels dealer with images of pots, masks, textiles and statues.
  
• African Sculptural Art - Papers on the development of sculptural art in Africa, from pre-Iron Age to modern.
  
• Jembetat Gallery of African Art - Tribal art from West and Central Africa.
  
• Tribal Art Africa - Dealer in tribal African artifacts (mostly masks and statues).
  
• Masengo Gallery - Calgary (Alberta, Canada) gallery of Shona Stone sculpture from Zimbabwe.
  
• African Quintessence - African art, mainly from Benin, with nice images and descriptions of cultural significance.
  
• StoneAge Art Company - Shona sculpture from 250 Zimbabwe carvers.
  
• Shani Gallery - African masks and sculpture with brief descriptions of their traditional significance.
  
• Galerie Ezakwantu - Central and Southern African tribal art. In Franschhoek, South Africa.
  
• Affrica Gallery - Informative site run by gallery in Washington, D.C.
  
• AfricanArt Online - Dealer specializing in African arts.
  
• McCue Tribal Art - Many images and some cultural information.
  
• Africa Direct - A variety of African tribal art, with good cultural information on many of the objects.
  
• The World of Beduin Weaving - Extensive information on weaving by the Beduins of North Africa.
  
• Africa-Photo - Databank with over 4,000 photos from 1870 to the present and much cultural information.
  
• African Art and Artists - Bridget McNulty trades in contemporary and traditional African art and crafts.
  
• The Suaga Collection - Noncommercial site showcasing a private collection of African masks.
  
• African Arts and Culture Discussion Group - Discussion group about African art and culture.
  
• Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.
  
• Charles Jones African Art - Traditional African art, with many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.
  
• African Art: Makonde - Links to some sites specializing in Makonde arts and crafts.
  
• Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa - Periodic on-line exhibitions as well as a guide to the Brussells museum. Includes a search facility for finding websites with information about central Africa.
  
• African Tribal Art Museum - A collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.
  
• African Art Shop - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.
  
• G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture - An outstanding collection of photographs, many showing objects of art in their cultural settings.
  
• Von Burg Gallery - San Francisco dealer in African tribal arts.
  
• African Arms - Traditional creations of edged weaponry of medieval Africa, using indigenous wood carving and metal working styles.
  
• Zambezi Sculpture - Zimbabwe stone sculpture, Shona and others using traditional techniques.
  
• Davis Gallery - Art and sculpture of West and Central Africa
  
• Kerr Museum Productions - Consultants on African art and display installations. Offers 3-D images of African sculpture.
  
• Origomundi Gallery - Decorative and authentic African art from private collections. Lots of images. In German and English.
  
• African Masks - Collection of African masks, most of which are for sale.
  
• The Ebony Tree - Tribal African gallery with masks, statues, and other tribal arts
  
• All About Shoowa - Rich source of information about Shoowa raffia textiles.
  
• Senufo Art - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.
  
• All About African art - Information for those starting an African art collection; the regions, types of art and the people who make them.
  
• Jacaranda Tribal - Art from south and east Africa, with lot of cultural background information.
  
• Moba Art - Information on Moba (Togo and Ghana) sculpture.
  
• Museum of African Art in Belgrade - Museum of African art, mainly the collection of Veda and Dr. Zdravko Pečar
  
  

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