Special sale on African mask

We are offering this authentic African tribal art mask from the Kuba people for 50% off the regular price. It has been listed in our gallery, http://www.TribalWorks.com, at $1,000.

We now will sell it at $500. The wrought iron stand is included.

It is a stunning work of African tribal mask art, authentic in every way. We acquired it for our personal collection in 1996. While the precise age can not be determeind, we know it is at least 15 years old, today.

Contact us at 800-305-0185 to arrange purchase. Thank you.

Tribal Art - Is it growing in awareness and favor?

KIM PALMER has written in the Minneapolis Star Tribune (2/12/2009) about the growing popularity of African tribal art, which she attributes in part to the election of Barack Obama as President. Here are some excerpts:

"At first, it was kind of a fad," said Angie Scott, a St. Paul interior designer and owner of Access:Dezign. But globalization is fueling broader awareness and appreciation of other cultures and their aesthetic traditions.

For many black Americans, African-inspired design remains a celebration of cultural pride. "We're just drawn to those pieces and being in touch with our ancestry," said Scott.

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Among collectors of global antiques and artifacts, African pieces "faded to the background for 10 or 15 years, as Asian antiques came in," said Ian Grant, owner of Bjorling & Grant, an imported furniture and accessories showroom in St. Louis Park, Minn. "Now, slowly, at the upper end of the market, African pieces are coming back in."

And there's much to appreciate, Ta-coumba Aiken said. "Some of the finest crafts in the world come from all parts of Africa. It's an area of beautiful age-old design. People will start looking at Africa and will be amazed."

There's more to the story and you can read it here , as reported by the Sacramento (CA) Bee.

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Aboriginals: Art of the First Person and its web site at TribalWorks.com is excited to see a resurgence of interest in this beautiful ethnographic art. We have many pieces for sale that fall on the low end of high-end, traditional, authentic African tribal art. Check out the masks and sculptures in our African Room.
You can do more than add an African touch to your decor. You can add a art object with a rich, African tribal heritage to your experience.

A thank you tip to to Kim Palmer, The Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Sacramento Bee, who brought this story to our attention.

New African Art Site

Early on in our excursion in to African Tribal Art, we were encouraged by David Norden, a collector of unusual knowledge and experience.

In fact, we still post suggestions for collecting African Tribal Art at TribalWorks.com that were based largely on original thoughts by David.


He was the moderator of the African_Antiques group at Yahoo Groups, and now has a new blog and web site at African Art Club.

Some of the articles are in German. Even those are understandable. And the photos are in the universal language of photography.

We recommend a visit to the African Art Club to stay current about news in the field.

The Tribal Eye

Hat tip to geneofisis.

Three new African art masks added.

Tribal Artery is a periodic blog about tribal art brought to you by William Waites and Susanne Waites of TribalWorks.com.
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Dipping into our personal collection, we have dusted off three masks that had not previously been offered on our TribalWorks website.

Here they are, one from Liberia's Bassa people and two from the Kuba tribe of the Congo:Bassa Bundu Society helmet mask

Kuba helmet mask with raffia collar

Kuba mask with raffia coiffure

If you are an African tribal art collector or curious about African tribal art, pay a visit to TribalWorks.com, Aboriginals Gallery's web site featuring African tribal art in the context of tribal art from Australia, the Arctic, Navajo folk art, Pueblo pottery and Eastern tribal carvings.

African Art takes off - well, almost

The T. Terminal of the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is home to an impressive exhibit of African art. Entitled "Symbolic Use of Animals in African Cultural Arts", the exhibit features the cultural unity of humans and animals, with numerous masks including masks of west and central Africa.

Exhibit sponsor, Herman Bigham claims, "this presentation may be the largest, most widely viewed exhibit of World Class African Traditional Sculptural Art ever displayed in a public place." Bigham advised that the exhibit was successfully presented at the Main Branch Library in Philadelphia, where approximately 25,000 visitors viewed it.

With 35 million travelers annually, the exhibit is bound to spread awareness of the beauty of African art and the rich culture of the African art tradition to millions more before it concludes its run in October, 2008.
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Tribal Artery is brought to you by William Ernest Waites and Susanne Waites, proprietors of Aboriginals: Art of the First Person online gallery, including the web site at TribalWorks.com. Numerous examples of authentic African Tribal art will be found for sale at the site.