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Topia!: Arts: Visual Arts: Native and Tribal: Africa (67)
See Also:  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.
Ralph Proctor Gallery - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions. a-piece-of-africa - Art Gallery - Gallery of a job creation project, with sections devoted to ethnographic and historical aspects of African art. 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. National Museum of African Art - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events. 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 Art Collection - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance. Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Includes exhibitions and information about tribal arts. Affrica Gallery - Informative site run by gallery in Washington, D.C. Akan Cultural Symbols - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art. 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. G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture - An outstanding collection of photographs, many showing objects of art in their cultural settings. African Experiences at the Baobab Tree - Denver gallery, with good informational content about the items for sale. African Antiques - Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information. African Tribal Art Museum - A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples. Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination. Moba Art - Information on Moba (Togo and Ghana) sculpture. McCue Tribal Art - Many images and some cultural information. Dimondstein Tribal Arts - Many images and information on African tribal art. Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum. Masks and More - Masks, african art and primitive paintings, beautifully presented. African Odyssey Interactive - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC). 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. Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art. Sukuma Museum - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa). The World of Beduin Weaving - Extensive information on weaving by the Beduins of North Africa. Hamill Gallery of African Art - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well. Senufo Art - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series. African Art Shop - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles. Shona Sculpture - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre. Africa-Photo - Databank with over 4,000 photos from 1870 to the present and much cultural information. Yahoo! Groups: AfricanAntiques - Discussion board on African art. African Art Course - Materials for a University of Virginia course on African arts, with images, bibiliographic information, and web links. African Sculpture - Images of a private collection. Africa Cultural Gallery & Kumbu Kumbu Gallery - Contemporary African sculpture, batiks, watercolors and oil paintings. Azani Stone Gallery Zimbabwe Shona Sculpture - Zimbabwe Shona stone sculpture, including busts, abstracts and wildlife art. African Sculptural Art - Papers on the development of sculptural art in Africa, from pre-iron age to modern. Shani Gallery - African masks and sculpture with brief descriptions of their traditional significance. Cassiopeia Fine Art - Chicago tribal art gallery, with samples from their collection. Africa Direct - A variety of African tribal art, with good cultural information on many of the objects. Adinkra Symbols of West Africa - A guide to the Asante traditional symbols, with photos of adinkras in use. Tamarin Gallery - A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources. Africans-art News - Articles on African arts, many of very high quality, reproduced verbatim from other sources. African Quintessence - African art, mainly from Benin, with nice images and descriptions of cultural significance. AfricaClub - Wide assortment of arts and crafts, with considerable cultural background on the objects. African Statues and More - Commercial gallery offering a variety of African tribal art objects. Afro-Dit - Essays on African art, a short course on tribal arts, and discussion forums. African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia. H-AfrArts Expressive Cultures of Africa - A seriously scholarly site, with moderated discussion boards. From Michigan State University. Axis Gallery - Gary van Wyk's gallery, with excellent exhibitions. Emphasis on South Africa. Walking Man Gallery - African art as well as modern paintings and sculpture. A very beautiful website. deYoung Museum African Collection - Extensive collection of images and information from the San Francisco museum. 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. Jembetat Gallery of African Art - Tribal art from West and Central Africa. Africarts - Collection of African art objects: exchange of information and/or of objects Contemporary Makonde art - A collection, includes some background information on the artists and styles. Some items are for sale. Zambezi Sculpture - Zimbabwe stone sculpture, Shona and others using traditional techniques. OKOUME African Art Shop - Masks, sculptures, carvings and bronzes from central Africa. Art of Burkina Faso - Collection of Burkina Faso tribal art. Gallery Quackelbeen - Brussels dealer with images of pots, masks, textiles and statues. All About Shoowa - Rich source of information about Shoowa raffia textiles. Pan-Africa - Multilingual categorized collection of links to sites about African art. The Mayor Portfolio - Dealer in African tribal arts, site has many images of sculptures. Ethnix Gallery of African Art & Tribal Artifacts - New York dealer. African Art: Makonde - Links to some sites specializing in Makonde arts and crafts.
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