African cultures have been forging metals such as copper, bronze, brass, and iron for over 2,500 years. Once they developed the technology for extremely hot furnaces that enabled the smelting and refinement of different metals, blacksmithing and other forms of metalworking became highly respected professions in many different cultures. African blacksmiths and metalworkers … [Read more...] about African Metal Weapons and Ceremonial Objects: Researched and Conserved by Madison Baker and Diana Kosinska
This small figure, made by artists of the Tikar culture of Cameroon, is a representation of a house god, an ancestral power that is believed to have been one of the first occupants of this region. The figure is short and stout because the Tikar believe that their ancestors were pygmies. Such house god sculptures are kept in the home because the figure is believed to provide … [Read more...] about Small African Figural Sculptures: Researched by Emma Schupbach