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African Tourist-Trade Animal Sculpture Researched by Ashley McLaughlin and Morgan Davis

February, 2019 by Ashley McLaughlin

The Maasai, the Kikuyu, the Kamba, and other native cultures of Kenya did not traditionally do figural woodcarving before the early 20th century.  The Kamba, for example, limited their woodcarving to medicinal, spiritual, or funerary objects such as medicine staffs, wooden stoppers for gourds, and horn medicine containers.  Then, shortly after World War I, a Kamba soldier in … [Read more...] about African Tourist-Trade Animal Sculpture Researched by Ashley McLaughlin and Morgan Davis

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