Ethnography

Antique Massive Yoruba Copper Bracelet – Manilla – African Currency – Nigeria

19th century. Copper grams 1.448,0 (51.08 oz.). Cm. 10,0 high x cm. 12,0 width x cm. 4,0 thickness (3.94″ x 4.72″ x 1.57"). The Yoruba people are an African ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly Nigeria and Benin. As an ethnic description, the word “Yoruba” (or more correctly, “Yaraba”) was originally in...

Old Tuareg Leather Bag – Scroll – Niger

Leather, red fabric. The piece is approx. cm. 47,0 high x 12,0 width (18.50” x 4.72”). The bag contains a scroll in the front and is cm. 12,5 x cm. 9,0 (4.92” x 3.54”). This old bag contains a scroll in the front. The Tuareg people inhabit a large area, covering almost all the middle and western Sahara and the north-central Sahel. They are...

Pair Twin Figures – Ewe / Venavi – Togo

Carved wood, pigment.  Cm. 23,0 high x cm. 7,7 width (9.06" x 3.03"); grams 341,7 (12.05 oz.). Throughout history the phenomenon of twins has always been the subject of great curiosity and charm, such as surprising and uncontrollable force of nature, stimulating particular actions and behaviors. In Togo and Bènin, if one...