Tribal Art Auction - Dorotheum, April 2

Vienna auction house Dorotheum will present a sale of fine tribal antiquities on April 2. Primarily highlighting masks and statuary from West and Central Africa, the lots will also include a range of Indonesian and Pacific works, as well as a handful of Eskimo stone sculptures.

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Mask  -  Boa, D R Congo  -  Late nineteenth/early twentieth century

Feather currency roll  -  Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Islands

Head depicting a nobleman  -  Benin, Nigeria  -  Eighteenth or nineteenth century

Avian grave markers  -  Sakalava, Madagascar  -  Nineteenth or early twentieth century

Kifwebe mask  -  Songye, D R Congo

Bwami society mask  -  Lega, D R Congo

Cihongo mask  -  Chokwe, Southeastern Congo  -  Early twentieth century

Information and images courtesy of Dorotheum

Expanding Views of Africa at Stanford University

 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University opened an enlarged and enhanced reinstallation of its African art galleries last year. Expanding Views of Africa includes 200 works from the collection and key loans, broadens conventional views of African art, from ancient cultures before the dynasties of the Egyptian Pharaohs to contemporary artists.

Visit the Cantor Arts Center's official website.

Bushoong mask  -  Kuba, D. R. Congo

Mask, mwana pwo  -  Luvale, Zambia  -  Late 20th century

Sarcophagus mask of a woman  -  Egypt  -  7th–6th century BC

Sengele, D. R. Congo

Head ornament, tcherot or tereout tan'eraf  - Tuareg, Algeria  -  20th century

Information and images courtesy of Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University