Africa

Africa

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• Zimbabwe@

Africa Links

• The Maurer Collection Collection of artifacts used in rites of divination in Central and West Africa. Extensively illustrated with scholarly text.
  
• Art and Life in Africa Project An extremely rich source of information on African art and its cultural contexts. Based on the Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa.
  
  
• African Art Shop Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.
  
• Kate Peck Kent Collection of West African Textiles Exhibition and background information on textiles from west Africa.
  
• AfricanTribes.com Commercial site with a nice summary of the aesthetics of African art.
  
• G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture An outstanding collection of photographs, many showing object of art in their cultural settings.
  
• Yahoo! Club, African Tribal Art An on-line club for those interested in African art. Includes a discussion board and a facility for having members post images.
  
• Fowler Museum of Cultural History Includes exhibitions and information about tribal arts.
  
• 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.
  
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.
  
• 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.
  
• Africa-Photo Databank with over 4,000 photos from 1870 to the present, a forum for African art, cultural information.
  
• Tellem Gallery Sculpture (masks, statuettes, etc.) and jewelry from many African regions; pre-Columbian art and pottery.
  
• Charles Jones African Art Traditional African art, with many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.
  
• Akan Cultural Symbols Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.
  
• Moba Art Information on Moba (Togo and Ghana) sculpture.
  
• The World of Beduin Weaving Extensive information on weaving by the Bedouins of North Africa.
  
• Artistic Visions Online art gallery, purchase original Modern Native American spiritual and visionary art.
  
• a-piece-of-africa - Art Gallery Gallery of a job creation project, with sections devoted to ethnographic and historical aspects of African art.
  
• African Tribal Art Museum A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.
  
• African Antiques Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information.
  
• Africa Direct A variety of African tribal art, with good cultural information on many of the objects.
  
• Shani Gallery African masks and sculpture with brief descriptions of their traditional significance.
  
• African Odyssey Interactive Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
  
• Tamarin Gallery A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources.
  
• Ralph Proctor Gallery A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.
  
• Museum for African Art New York's Museum for African Art.
  
• Yahoo! Groups : AfricanAntiques Discussion board on African art.
  
• deYoung Museum African Collection Extensive collection of images and information from the San Francisco museum.
  
• Ethnographica - African Art and Oriental Rugs Commercial site with beautiful, high-powered graphics. But navigation is limited unless display resolution exceeds 800 x 600.
  
• The Sissoko House of Art Dealer, primarily in central and west African arts. Some cultural information and periodic exhibitions.
  
• African Art Course Materials for a University of Virginia course on African arts, with images, bibiliographic information, and web links.
  
• Hamill Gallery of African Art A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.
  
• African Art Collection African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.
  
• Nok Museum A virtual museum with exhibitions, articles, a discussion board, and several other features "under construction" as of May 1999.
  
• 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.
  
• Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.
  
• Sukuma Museum Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).
  
• Masks and More Masks, african art and primitive paintings. Site requires some effort to navigate.
  
• National Museum of African Art The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events.
  
• African Experiences at the Baobab Tree Denver gallery, with good informational content about the items for sale.
  
• African Sculpture Images of a private collection.
  
• Shona Sculpture A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.
  
• Affrica Gallery Informative site run by gallery in Washington, D.C.
  
• McCue Tribal Art Many images and some cultural information.
  
• Fcculture Art from various African cultures and its relation to their history.
  
• H+K Gallery Gallery with many images and some cultural information. In English and German.
  
• Cassiopeia Fine Art Chicago tribal art gallery, with samples from their collection.
  
• Senufo Art Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.
  
• James Willis Tribal Art Images of African art objects.
  
• Kente Cloth Nice source of information about "Kente" cloth.
  
• Dimondstein Tribal Arts Many images and information on African tribal art.
  
• Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.