African Art Auction Ending 2/18

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Traditional black and white bogolan (“mud cloth”) textile made from 6 strips of hand woven, hand sewn cotton country cloth. Bamana people, Mali. 59in. x 36in.

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Asante kente man’s robe with warp stripe design called “Mmeeda” meaning “something that has not happened before” or “something unprecedented”. Collected in Bonwire, Ghana. Woven by Nana Kwabena Boateng. 24 handwoven 3.5in. hand sewn strips. Cotton and ?silk or rayon. (129.0in. x 92.0in.) Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2004. See “Wrapped in Pride” by Doran Ross, p. 115, Fig. 8.15.

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Two gauze-like cotton head-wrap scarves worn by Tuareg people as protection against sun, wind, and sand in Sahara desert. Woman’s cloth: teal green with faint blue stripe and deep purple border at both ends (109in. x 39in). Man’s cloth: indigo with single white line hand embroidered at one end (32in. x 156in). Collected in Djenne, Mali. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2004.

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Man’s “agbada” robe (“boubou”) with elaborate hand embroidered large white dagger on front and spiral designs on front and back on idigo-dyed cotton textile with criss-cross white lines. 91in. x 49in. Hausa people, Nigeria. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2004. See “African Textiles” by J. Gillow, pp. 100-103.

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Asante man’s cloth with two warp stripe patterns: “Oyokoman”, named after the Oyoko clan of the Ashantahene or paramount Chief, and a variant of “Mmeeda” meaning something extraordinary. Many different weft designs. Made from 21 hand sewn and hand woven cotton (and ?silk or rayon) strips. Asante people, Ghana. See “Wrapped in Pride” by Doran Ross, p. 113 Fig 8.4 and p. 115 Fig 8.15. 118in.x80in. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2004.

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Kuba man’s dance skirt made from 10 hand woven, hand sewn panels of raffia textile. Worn wrapped around waist starting with straight end so that outside closure is at end with rounded corners. Unusual two tier distribution of designs. Lower wider tier has dispersed largely appliquéd designs. Upper narrower tier consists of interwoven appliquéd and embroidered designs. Bushong Kuba people, Congo. 211in.x32in. See “African Textiles” by J. Gillow pp.192-195. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2004.

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Pictorial bogolan (“mud cloth”) textile depicting a farmer milking a cow and his wife carrying goods on her head to market. Hand woven cotton country cloth made from 5 hand sewn strips. 43in.x27in. Collected in Segou, Mali. See ‘Bogolanfini Mud Cloth” by Sam Hilu and Irwin Hersey.

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Ewe woman’s “avonwe” cloth made from 14 hand woven, hand sewn strips. This exceptional textile displays unusually numerous supplementary weft designs including a butterfly, key, hand, table and 2 chairs, comb, umbrella, Akan stool, elephant, dragon fly, etc. Supplementary weft designs are woven into the cloth. This is not embroidery. Figurative supplementary weft designs are referred to as “scriptures” in Ghana. Cotton textile with rayon weft designs. 67inx46in. Anlo-Ewe people, Agbozume Ghana. Collected in Keta, Ghana. See” African Majesty” by P. Adler and N. Barnard plate 33 and pp.167-168 for similar but less elaborate textile. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York 2005.

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Brass gold weights (3) representing a mudfish with its tail turned over its body, a porpoise, and unidentified fish with a long snout, Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Gold Weights” by Tom Phillips.

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Brass gold weights(4) with various forms including a hand, a stringed musical instrument, a ring, and a drawer knob with crocodile. Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Gold Weights” by Tom Phillips.

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Brass gold weights (4) including a hippo, snake, seated Sankofa bird and standing Sankofa bird. In nature, the Sankofa bird repeatedly looks over it shoulder and is a metaphor for the idea that we learn from the past. Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Gold Weights” by Tom Phillips.

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Geometric brass gold weights (6). Various sizes and designs. Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Gold Weights” by Tom Phillips.

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Highly prized, stitched resist-dyed tubular raffia man’s dance skirt woven by a unique seamless plaiting technique. Dyed with brown, yellow, red, and black pigments extracted from plants. 28in. long (without fringe)x 21in.wide. Dida people, Ivory Coast. See “African textiles” by J. Gillow pp.66-67. Exhibited Pen and Brush Gallery, New York.

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Ewe “biakoye” or “unity” woman’s wrp consisting of 14 hand woven cotton strips. 69.5in.x46in. Ewe people, Agbozume Ghana.

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Exceptional Igbo man’s cloth consisting of 4 wide hand woven cotton strips hand sewn together using brightly colored cotton thread. Unusual weaving technique allows predominantly green design on one side and predominantly maroon design on the other. 96in.x75in. Igbo people, Nigeria.

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Pictorial bogolan (“Mudcloth”) textile depicting two women with head loads of fire wood followed by a farmer with a hoe on one shoulder. 10 strips of hand woven country cloth machine sewn. 71in. x 46in. Bamana people, Segou, Mali. See “Bogolanfini Mud Cloth” by S. Hilu and I. Hersey.

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Man’s adrinka mourning cloth made by applying adinkra wood or calabash stamps using a native dye to cotton sheets. A mourning cloth is traditionally black or dark red. In this case, two block stamps were applied with dark grey dye to 15 machine sewn strips. 131in. x80in. Asante people, Collected in Accra Ghana.

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Geometric brass gold weights (5). Assorted sizes and shapes. Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Goldweights,” by Tom Phillips.

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Brass gold weights (5) depicting a hippo, porcupine, rabbit, rhino and a leopard. Akan people, Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Goldweights” by Tom Phillips.

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Brass scopions (2). The smaller scorpion is a gold weight. Akan people Ghana and Ivory Coast. See “African Gold Weights” by Tom Phillips.