AFRICAN POSTS

VIGANGO
Memorial Posts
Catalog

BELANDA
POST 10
73.5", $3000

DOGON
Toguna
Posts

BONGO
Funerary
Posts

 TUAREG
Bela
Posts

TUAREG
Ehel
Posts
 

TUAREG
Igem
Entrance Posts

 TUAREG
Posts 
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TUAREG
Forked
Posts

DOGON
Posts
Catalog

FON
Boccio Posts

FANG
Posts

FON
Boccio Posts 2

 


 

LEGA
Posts
Catalog

 


 

MOSSI
Posts
Catalog

NUPE
Posts
Catalog

TUAREG
POSTS
Catalog 

TOMA
Posts
Catalog

 TUAREG
POSTS
Catalog 

NUPE
Posts
Catalog

 

BAMUN
Houseposts
Catalog

 

BAMUN
Houseposts
Catalog

 

BAMUN
Houseposts
Catalog

 

BAMUN
Houseposts
Catalog

 

 

 

FANG
Posts


NUPE
Posts
Catalog

TSOGO
Posts
CAtalog

NUPE
Posts
Catalog

TSOGO
Posts
CAtalog

NUPE
Posts
Catalog

 


TOMA
Posts
Catalog

YAKA
Posts


BOBO-FING POST-FIGURE, YORUBA HOUSEPOST, DOGON TOGUNA POST

This is an exhibit that shows traditional architectural and commemorative posts. Many African figurative pieces are post-like in form but we are showing only those intended to be placed not on, but in, the ground. They share a spiritual monumentality reserved for pieces fused by contact with the earth.


The architectural support posts are dominated by a large collection of Dogon toguna posts from Mali. The Y-shaped posts support beams of the village men's toguna house and are embellished with figures, breasts or symbols. The impressive grouping, carved to last from the incredibly dense local hardwood, ranges in style and in size to over 7 feet tall and 195 Ibs. The bottom several feet are usually buried in the ground, some posts have discoloration of this area, others have it rotted away to varying degrees. Muslim conversion of villages and closure of some of the Togunas has vacillitated the legal purchase and exportation of the posts. We also have a Yoruba chiefs housepost and an abstract Nupe post, both from Nigeria.


The second major grouping is of Fon Boccio figure/posts from the Rep. of Benin. Mostly modest in scale, often inelegantly carved, but wonderfully aged by exposure,they honored past chiefs and kings. Two are very tall head/posts. Similar head or figure/posts of the Yaka and Songye of Zaire, the Bobo-Fing of Burkina Faso, and the Igbo and the Benue of Nigeria add to the show, which is completed by some abstract Taureg screenposts from Niger. Not intended as art, but to support and honor, all of these posts have survived to create a show of unusual power, carved by man and aged by the earth.

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