Il n’est pas improbable que le mouvement Dada, né en 1916 à Zurich au Cabaret Voltaire, soit pourtant bien en avant de nous-même, et que sa déflagration se fasse d’autant plus ressentir aujourd’hui que l’époque s’enfonce dans le conformisme moral, la force motrice de la bêtise, et l’impossibilité de remettre en question son fondement étroitement…
This cast brass pendant is of a female captive or slave figure seated on her knees, with arms thrust behind her back and her wrists bound. She has long hair, a large beaded necklace, elongated breasts, and a distended naval. A loop for suspension has been cast to the back. The pendant is from a … Read more
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Massive carved doors were sometimes placed at the main entrance of traditional Bamana or Bozo homes. Housing several generations and branches of a family, such domestic structures were built of sun-dried mud bricks and consist of a series of rooms arranged around one or more courtyards and connected by a surrounding wall
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Dogon Wirigo or Griwo Mask
The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium) holds extensive collections in the areas of anthropology, archaeology, history, wood biology, zoology and geology. Over the last years they have been partly made available for online consultation. The new website presents a number of remarkable collections of ethnographic and historical objects, of photographs and paintings. Some of them are introduced by RMCA scientists, explaining their origin and their historical and scientific importance.
These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.
Type of object: Old kuduo with two birds Ethnic group: Asante/Ashanti Country of origin: Ghana Measurement: 11 x 13.5 cm Weight: 612 grams
Looted Benin Bronzes from 1897, acquired by a German who “donated objects from, among other places, Benin to the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm” in order to receive the “Order of the North Star”. CURRENT LOCATION: Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm
Representing an antelope, the mask classically carved with long cubistic facial planes and powerful jutting horns and ears. Fine patina of age and use. On a custom base.
Dogon masks such as this sim mask are worn primarily at commemorative rituals for Dogon men. The face of the sim mask is typical of many Dogon wooden masks. A rectangular box with an arched forehead, it has two deeply hollowed channels in front
