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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

Filed Under: 2018 Spring, ART 386: Art of Africa Tagged With: african art, african tourist trade, antelope, art of africa, bottle stopper, east africa, ebony wood, elephant, giraffe, kamba, kenya, kikuyu, leopard, maasai, makonde, mask, munge, sculpture, shilling, silver coin, tourist trade, warthog, wine stopper, zebra

African Tourist-Trade Figural Art Researched by Cal Wylie

February, 2019 by Ashley McLaughlin

Woodcarving is an especially important economic activity for the Makonde of Mozambique, the Makonde of Tanzania, and the Senegalese of Western Coastal Africa, among others.  These cultures have developed new forms of wooden sculpture as a direct response to the tourist trade in Africa.  Rather than adapting traditional works, they have developed new types of sculpture using … [Read more...] about African Tourist-Trade Figural Art Researched by Cal Wylie

Filed Under: 2018 Spring, ART 386: Art of Africa Tagged With: african art, african tourist-trade figural art, art of africa, makonde, mazombique, mpingo blackwood, sculpture, senegal, senegalese, tanzania, thinker, western coastal africa

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