Cultures

Cultures are a series of essays made for the Savannah African Art Museum. Each one explores a culture or theme across objects in the collection.

Vessel
19th - 20th century. Bronze. Cameroon (Western Grasslands)
Image courtesy of the Savannah African Art Museum.

• Western Cameroon, a cluster of kingdoms.

• The Edo, Culture and Continuity.

• African furniture is down low.

• Opon Ifá – divination trays.

• Cowrie shells of the Kuba Kingdom.

• The Kuba Kingdom - myth, culture and unity.

• Olowe of Ise, artist or designer?

• Nkisi nkondi, spiritual and social artefacts of the Kongo, Loango & Songye.

• The helmet masks of the Sande and Sowei.

• Kingdoms and Empires along the river Niger.