Tribal Art Forum Archived Essays and Discussions
Most of the discussions on our public forums deal with issues that are not of long term interest, and are deleted when they have been inactive for awhile (usually about a month). Those that seem to me to have lasting value as resource material for collectors at various levels are preserved here.
General Tribal Arts
Dating the age of wood. by Ingo Barlovic (September 12, 2006)
BRUNEAF XVI: A Report. by David Zemanek (July 12, 2006)
Bugs. by Matt Scheiner. (August 5, 2005)
BRUNEAF XV: A Report. by David Zemanek (July 8, 2005)
BRUNEAF XIII: A Report. by David Zemanek (July 3, 2003)
Weaving and Wood: A Short Course in Tribal Arts. by Steve Price (July 28, 2002)
African Tribal Arts
African Ritual Masks: "Value" or "Values"? by Andrew Turley (March 28, 2008)
Essay: The Power and Politics of Colour: Opinions of an Intuitive Collector. by Andrew Turley (July 13, 2006)
Liberian brass figure. by Brendan Sowerby. (December 8, 2005)
Preservation of Africa's cultural heritage. by Steve Price ( August 26, 2005)
Stellate "bronze" bracelet. by Scott Shepperd (July 24, 2005)
The Authenticity of African Sculptures. by Henri Kamer (June 22, 2005)
Bleeding Bena Lulua Figure. by Gavin Alcott (April 19, 2005)
Igbo "Beautiful Maiden" Masks. by John Monroe (September 19, 2004)
Brass figure. by James Peacock (July 17, 2004)
Kru money revisited. by Scott Shepperd (June 15, 2004)
Yoruba Carvers - Past and Present. by David Zemanek (May 18, 2004)
Figure of masquerader. by Ian Young (March 22, 2004)
Artistic Ethnographic Tourist Art: Cameroon Metal Figures. by Steve Price (February 17, 2004)
An Authentic Fake, with Provenance. by Steve Price (March 28, 2003)
The Sejen bird figures of the Senufo People, Ivory Coast. by David Zemanek (February 5, 2003)
Collectable Masks, Do They Have to be Old? by Ian Young (November 25, 2002)
The Yoruba Ibedji Twin Cult. by David Zemanek (August 27, 2002)
Design Ambiguity in a Mama Mask. by Steve Price (August 3, 2002)
Asian Tribal Arts
Tribal Statues (India). by Laetitia Verbeek (April 7, 2006)