Iron currency. Early 20th century. Height: 46.0 cm (18.11 in); weight: 744 g (26.24 oz). The Mumuye and Chamba are small ethnic groups inhabiting the border regions of eastern Nigeria. This currency consists of an iron staff from which emerges a sheaf of individual, sinuous, snake‑shaped ramifications. The...
Hand-beaten tree-bark, painted with organic pigments. Approx. cm. 60,0 x 43,0 (23.62 x 16.93 Inches). Mbuti people, one of the oldest indigenous people of the Congo region of Africa, are one of several indigenous pygmy groups. They arehunter-gatherers that live in the Ituri rainforest. The Mbuti are composed of bands which are...
Early to mid 20th century. Silver, enamel, silver coins, glass. The piece is cm. 64,7 in length (25.47″). Each fibulae is cm 17,0 high x cm 10,5 wide (6.69″ x 4.13″). 246,7 g (8.70 oz). Essential feminine embellishment, the...
End 19th century - early 20th century. Silver gr. 30,1 (1.20 oz); Cm. 10,2 high x cm. 6,3 width (3.54” x 2.36”). The KHAMSA hand (Arabic) or HAMESH hand (Hebrew) is and old and still popular apotropaic amulet for magical protection from the envious or evil eye. An alternative Islamic name for this amulet is...
Carved wood, pigment. Cm. 34,0 high (13.39″). Grams 422,3 (14.89 oz.). Mami Wata is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Americas. The sophisticated theology of the Ewe people is similar to those of nearby ethnic groups, such...
Silver, red glass, coral, glass, resin, and silver beads. The necklace is cm. 63,0 long (24.80"); grams 134,3 (4.74 oz.). Berbers are the indigenous ethnic group of North Africa. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to...
19th century. Bronze grams 774,1 (8.98 oz.). The anklet is 19,4 cm in length (7.75"). outer diameter cm. 8,6 (3.38″); inner diameter cm. 6,0 (2.36"). Preserved in exceptionally good condition. For similar examples, see page 74 of “A World of Bracelets”, by Anne Van Cutsem. The Igbo...
Approx. cm. 55,0 x 47,0 (21.65” x 18.50”). Authentic straw mat decorated with leather strips that form traditional Tuareg geometric designs. Excellent conditions. The Tuareg people inhabit a large area, covering almost all the middle and western Sahara and the north-central Sahel. They are probably descended from the ancient Libyan people of the...
The Ida Ou Nadif tribe (also known as Ida Ougnidif or Ida ou Gnidif) is a Berber (Amazigh) community located in southern Morocco, in the Souss-Massa region, Chtouka-Aït Baha province. The name derives from the Amazigh prefix Id aw (“sons of”) and the anthroponym Ugnidif, thus meaning “the sons of Ugnidif.” According...
The Tachelhit Tribes are very numerous. There is no single “official” list of all the Tachelhit (Chleuh) tribes, because there are more than 200, organized into tribal confederations spread across Souss, the southwestern High Atlas, and the Anti-Atlas. All of them speak Tashelhit, the most widely spoken Amazigh language in...