Jacaranda Tribal Presenting at Parcours des Mondes 2012

In just over two weeks' time, Jacaranda Tribal will make its second appearance at the world's preeminent tribal art fair: Parcours des Mondes.  From September 11–16 we will be in the company of sixty-three distinguished international dealers of traditional arts from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas, all based in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of Paris.

Jacaranda will be presenting one of the few exhibits of fine antiquities from southeast Africa, including rare and important objects from Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and South Africa.  Additional selections will represent cultures from West and Central Africa, Polynesia, and elsewhere.  Our presentation in 2011 was eagerly received by attendees, and we have assembled another excellent range of works for the eleventh edition of the fair that is sure to delight both connoisseurs of African art and collectors for whom the art of the region is virtually new.

Jacaranda Tribal will be installed at Galerie ESPACES 54, located at 54 rue Mazarine.  We welcome you to visit us during this very special time––to discover new and beautiful objects, and to share our appreciation of the world's indigenous art traditions.

www.JacarandaTribal.com

www.parcours-paris.eu

Four-legged vessel  -  Sotho, Lesotho  -  Early 20th century

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Vessels and Containers at Jacaranda Tribal

A new online exhibition at Jacaranda Tribal presents a showcase of exquisite African vessels and containers.  Highlighting the diversity of form and myriad aesthetics brought to these utilitarian objects by a wide variety of traditional cultures from across the continent, Jacaranda's newest assemblage features refined lidded vessels from the Lozi of Zambia and the Hima of Rwanda; a graceful and elegant South African snuff container carved from a single piece of horn; a remarkable North African powder flask; and much more.  The images below present a selection of the exhibition's highlights.  Visit the Jacaranda Tribal website for detailed information on these items and many more.

Lidded bowl  -  Lozi, Zambia  -  First half of 20th century

Milk vessel  -  Hima, Rwanda  -  First half of 20th century

Meat bowl  -  Nyoro, Uganda  -  19th century

Lidded vessel  -  Shi, D.R. Congo  -  First half of 20th century

Lidded basket  -  Sotho, Lesotho  -  First half of 20th century

Wooden vessel  -  Tsonga or Matabele, Zimbabwe  -  Late 19th or early 20th century

Snuff container  -  South Africa  -  19th century

Powder flask  -  Morocco or Tunisia  -  19th or early 20th century

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The Art of Daily Life Enters its Final Week

Regarded as the finest showcase of Southern African art in recent years, The Art of Daily Life will enter its final week at the Cleveland Museum of Art on February 19. Through some seventy-five works from American private collections and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, the exhibition resplendently celebrates the stunning formal diversity and cultural significance of Southern Africa’s artistic heritage. Despite having enjoyed a degree of growing interest and appreciation over the past three decades, the art of indigenous Southern African societies has long been largely neglected. The Art of Daily Life puts the works of these traditions––which so subtly bridge the planes of the mundane and sacred––under a spotlight to receive the recognition they so unreservedly deserve. 

Visit the official website here.

Staff attributed to the "Baboon Master"   Tsonga, South Africa   19th–20th century

 

Prestige vessel   Nguni, South Africa   19th–20th century

Woman's beaded apron   Nguni, South Africa   19th–20th century

Pipe with anthropomorphic bowl   Sotho or Nguni, Lesotho or South Africa   19th–20th century

Headrest    Shona or Tsonga, Mozambique, South Africa or Zimbabwe   19th–20th century

Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art