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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• - Images of a private collection.
  
• - Tribal art from West and Central Africa.
  
• - Traditional African art, with many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.
  
• - Zimbabwe stone sculpture, Shona and others using traditional techniques.
  
• - African art, mainly from Benin, with nice images and descriptions of cultural significance.
  
• - Sculpture (masks, statuettes, etc.) and jewelry from many African regions; pre-Columbian art and pottery.
  
• - Emphasis on works from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present.
  
• - Contemporary African sculpture, batiks, watercolors and oil paintings.
  
• - New York's Museum for African Art.
  
• - African masks and sculpture with brief descriptions of their traditional significance.
  
• - Multilingual categorized collection of links to sites about African art.
  
• - A guide to the Asante traditional symbols, with photos of adinkras in use.
  
• - Shona sculpture from 250 Zimbabwe carvers.
  
• - A seriously scholarly site, with moderated discussion boards. From Michigan State University.
  
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• - Zimbabwe Shona stone sculpture, including busts, abstracts and wildlife art.
  
• - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.
  
• - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.
  
• - Directory of websites related to African art, arranged in categories.
  
• - A collection, includes some background information on the artists and styles. Some items are for sale.
  
• - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.
  
• - Dealer in tribal African artifacts (mostly masks and statues).
  
• - An exhibition of part of the university's permanent collection of African art. Good accompanying essays on various aspects of African art.
  
• - A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources.
  
• - African tribal art objects, with sections for items likely to interest the beginner and those likely to interest more advanced collectors.
  
• - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.
  
• - A variety of African tribal art, with good cultural information on many of the objects.
  
• - Brussels dealer with images of pots, masks, textiles and statues.
  
• - A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.
  
• - Discussion board on African art.
  
• - Images of a private collection with lots of pictures and information.
  
• - Original Products from Africa, Ebony Wood,Paintings
  
• - Links to some sites specializing in Makonde arts and crafts.
  
• - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).
  
• - Extensive information on weaving by the Beduins of North Africa.
  
• - Wide assortment of arts and crafts, with considerable cultural background on the objects.
  
• - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.
  
• - Gallery of Shona stone sculpture..
  
• - Extensive collection of images and information from the San Francisco museum.
  
• - Stone sculpture gallery and exhibitions of work of African artists, including Shona Stone sculpture.
  
• - Dealer in African tribal arts, site has many images of sculptures.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Informative site run by gallery in Washington, D.C.
  
• - Materials for a University of Virginia course on African arts, with images, bibiliographic information, and web links.
  
• - Many images and some cultural information.
  
• - Papers on the development of sculptural art in Africa, from pre-iron age to modern.
  
• - New York dealer.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Zimbabwean Shona sculpture in materials such as African jade, serpentine, and soapstone.
  
• - Collection of African art objects: exchange of information and/or of objects
  
• - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.
  
• - Gary van Wyk's gallery, with excellent exhibitions. Emphasis on South Africa.
  
• - An outstanding collection of photographs, many showing objects of art in their cultural settings.
  
• - Information on Moba (Togo and Ghana) sculpture.
  
• - Consultants on African art and display installations. Excellent 3-D images of African sculpture on the site.
  
• - Masks, african art and primitive paintings, beautifully presented.
  
• - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events.
  
• - Rich source of information about Shoowa raffia textiles.
  
• - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.
  
• - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.
  
• - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.
  
• - Hand-woven textiles including Ashanti kente and adinkra, Ewe kente, Yoruba adire and aso oke, Kuba raffia cloths, and Bogolan mud cloth from Mali.
  
• - Many images and information on African tribal art.
  
• - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
  
• - Databank with over 4,000 photos from 1870 to the present and much cultural information.
  
• - Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information.
  
• - Bushmen/San arts and crafts from the Kalahari.
  
• - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.
  
• - Art and sculpture of West and Central Africa
  
  

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