Paper Tribal Art

This impressive large example of Tapa cloth (or Ngatu) from Tonga is full of rich imagery including animals and a coat of arms. Dating to the Mid-20th Century it is made of the inner...

The Art Of African Textiles Clarke, Duncan. Published by Thunder Bay., San Diego., 2002. This book offers a fascinating journey through the history and culture of textiles in Afric...

Yinka Adeyemi (born 1945, Iragjibi, Nigeria) Fulani Maidens. Signed and dated 1970, lr. inscribed, ll. linocut on paper good, strong impression. Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife...

Yinka Adeyemi (born 1945, Iragjibi, Nigeria) Traditional Dance and Music Signed and dated 1970, lr. inscribed, ll. linocut on paper, good, strong impression. Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife...

Yao ceremonial painting. Guizhou Province, China, early to mid-19th century. (Please note that the painting is not mounted or framed.) This p...

Original James black mixed-media traditional ledger style drawing depicting Sioux Medicine Men on horseback in full regalia. Oil based colored pencil on paper. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 26 ¼ x 31 ¾ x ¾ inches. Image size is 17 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches. James Black (Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho and Oglala) is a Southern Cheyenne Sundance priest from Watonga, a small rural town in northwestern Oklahoma. Growing up in a traditional home and being influenced by the traditions of his people, James reflects his surroundings in his drawings. He wanted to pursue art but did not want to get into contemporary Native American Art such as drawing Indians with wolves and eagles. He knew his people did more traditional pictographic drawings known as ledger drawings. Studying more about this ledger art...

Man as Art Photos by Malcolm Kirk. The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1981. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A striking collection of photographic portraits and images of rare carved masks that captures the remarkable facial decorations and ceremonial, tribal dress of the natives and warriors of New Guinea. The author, Andrew Strathern, made numerous and long trips to New Guinea over 13 years in preparation to the publication of this book. This folio sized book has pages measuring 14 x 12. The book also contains a detailed map of New Guinea, followed by a 22 pages of text by Strathern. The photographs are in two groupings. The first contains 62 full color portraits of self...

This is a striking lithographic portrait of Tuko-see-mathla, a Seminole Chief, from McKenney and Hall’s three-volume work Indian Tribes of North America. This portrait was printed in...

Tribal wood carved dancing doll set Tharu southern Nepal. Mid-late 20th century. Set of hand-carved wooden dolls, some with articulated arms, depi...