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- a-piece-of-africa - Art Gallery - Gallery of a job creation project, with sections devoted to ethnographic and historical aspects of African art.
www.a-piece-of-africa.com
- Adinkra Symbols of West Africa - A guide to the Asante traditional symbols, with photos of adinkras in use.
www.welltempered.net/adinkra
- Adire African Textiles - Hand-woven textiles including Ashanti kente and adinkra, Ewe kente, Yoruba adire and aso oke, Kuba raffia cloths, and Bogolan mud cloth from Mali.
www.adire.clara.net
- Affrica Gallery - Informative site run by gallery in Washington, D.C.
www.affrica.com
- Africa Cultural Gallery & Kumbu Kumbu Gallery - Contemporary African sculpture, batiks, watercolors and oil paintings.
www.afroart.com
- Africa Direct - A variety of African tribal art, with good cultural information on many of the objects.
www.africadirect.com
- Africa-Photo - Databank with over 4,000 photos from 1870 to the present and much cultural information.
www.africa-photo.com/e_index_frames.html
- AfricaClub - Wide assortment of arts and crafts, with considerable cultural background on the objects.
www.africaclub.com
- African Antiques - Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information.
www.african-antiques.com
- African Art Collection - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.
arttribal.com
- African Art Course - Materials for a University of Virginia course on African arts, with images, bibiliographic information, and web links.
cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/rela345_98.html#webart
- African Art Shop - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.
users.pandora.be/african-shop
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.
www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
- African Experiences at the Baobab Tree - Denver gallery, with good informational content about the items for sale.
www.africanexperiences.com
- African Odyssey Interactive - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
artsedge.kennedy-center.org/odyssey.html
- African Quintessence - African art, mainly from Benin, with nice images and descriptions of cultural significance.
www.artofafricans.com
- African Sculptural Art - Papers on the development of sculptural art in Africa, from pre-iron age to modern.
web.onetel.net.uk/~herbertroese/index.html
- African Sculpture - Images of a private collection.
www.african-sculpture.de
- African Statues and More - Commercial gallery offering a variety of African tribal art objects.
www.africanstatuesandmore.com
- African Tribal Art Museum - A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.
www.zyama.com
- Africans-art News - Articles on African arts, many of very high quality, reproduced verbatim from other sources.
www.webzinemaker.com/africans-art
- Afro-Dit - Essays on African art, a short course on tribal arts, and discussion forums.
www.afro-dit.com
- Akan Cultural Symbols - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.
web.marshall.edu/akanart
- Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.
www.metmuseum.org/explore/oracle/index.html
- Axis Gallery - Gary van Wyk's gallery, with excellent exhibitions. Emphasis on South Africa.
www.axisgallery.com
- Azani Stone Gallery Zimbabwe Shona Sculpture - Zimbabwe Shona stone sculpture, including busts, abstracts and wildlife art.
www.azani.com
- Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa - Periodic on-line exhibitions as well as a guide to the Brussells museum. Includes a search facility for finding websites with information about central Africa.
www.africamuseum.be
- Cassiopeia Fine Art - Chicago tribal art gallery, with samples from their collection.
www.cassiopeiafineart.com
- Charles Jones African Art - Traditional African art, with many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.
www.cjafricanart.com
- Chokwe - Images and descriptions of arts and ceremonies of various tribal peoples (emphasis on Chokwe) of central Africa.
chokwe.com/index.html
- deYoung Museum African Collection - Extensive collection of images and information from the San Francisco museum.
www.thinker.org/deyoung/collections/collection.asp?collectionkey=36
- Dimondstein Tribal Arts - Many images and information on African tribal art.
www.dimondstein.com
- Emory University Collection of African Art - An exhibition of part of the university's permanent collection of African art. Good accompanying essays on various aspects of African art.
www.emory.edu/CARLOS/COLLECTION/AFRICA
- Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Includes exhibitions and information about tribal arts.
www.fmch.ucla.edu
- G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture - An outstanding collection of photographs, many showing objects of art in their cultural settings.
www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/index.html
- Galerie Peter Herrmann - A commercial gallery. Bilingual (German and English), with many images of African items. Also has a section describing ongoing African art related exhibitions and events elsewhere.
www.galerie-herrmann.de
- H-AfrArts Expressive Cultures of Africa - A seriously scholarly site, with moderated discussion boards. From Michigan State University.
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~artsweb
- Hamill Gallery of African Art - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.
www.hamillgallery.com
- James Willis Tribal Art - Images of African art objects.
www.jameswillis.com
- Kate Peck Kent Collection of West African Textiles - Exhibition and background information on textiles from west Africa.
www.du.edu/duma/africloth
- Kente Cloth - Nice source of information about "Kente" cloth.
users.erols.com/kemet/kente.htm
- Mamiju - African art gallery plus events calendar, "Arts & Culture Directory", and forum.
www.mamiju.com
- Masks and More - Masks, african art and primitive paintings, beautifully presented.
www.eling.nl
- McCue Tribal Art - Many images and some cultural information.
www.mccuetribalart.com
- Moba Art - Information on Moba (Togo and Ghana) sculpture.
www.moba.be
- Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.
www.africanart.org/html/exhibitions.html
- National Museum of African Art - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events.
www.si.edu/nmafa/africart.htm
- Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.
www.picardbeads.com
- Ralph Proctor Gallery - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.
www.introspecinc.com/gallery/exhibit.htm
- Senufo Art - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.
www.biddingtons.com/content/pedigreesenufo.html
- Shani Gallery - African masks and sculpture with brief descriptions of their traditional significance.
www.shanigallery.com
- Shona Sculpture - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.
karaart.com/collections/shona/index.html
- Sukuma Museum - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).
photo.net/sukuma
- Tamarin Gallery - A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources.
www.tamarin.com/index.html
- Tellem Gallery - Sculpture (masks, statuettes, etc.) and jewelry from many African regions; pre-Columbian art and pottery.
pages.infinit.net/tellem
- The World of Beduin Weaving - Extensive information on weaving by the Beduins of North Africa.
www.beduinweaving.com
- Walking Man Gallery - African art as well as modern paintings and sculpture. A very beautiful website.
www.walking-man-gallery.com/index.html
- Yahoo! Groups: AfricanAntiques - Discussion board on African art.
groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricanAntiques
- Art and Life in Africa Project - An extremely rich source of information on African art and its cultural contexts. Based on the Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart
- The Maurer Collection - Collection of artifacts used in rites of divination in Central and West Africa. Extensively illustrated with scholarly text.
www.amherst.edu/~jpembert
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