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    A TRIBAL ART FAIR IN LONDON

    Thursday, August 18th, 2016

    Tribal Art London – the UK’s only art fair devoted exclusively to selling works from specialists in non-Western Art – runs at the Mall Galleries, SW1 from September 1-4.  The 22 international specialists involved will bring works ranging from dance masks to metalwork, textiles to tribal adornment, early photography to contemporary paintings at prices from under £100 to over £20,000.  Here is a selection:

    Beadwork crowns of the Yoruba, Nigeria at Joss Graham

    Beadwork crowns of the Yoruba, Nigeria at Joss Graham

    A 19th century Zulu wooden vessel carved from a single block of wood with no joins, half a metre tall.  POA at Jeremy Sabine

    A 19th century Zulu wooden vessel carved from a single block of wood with no joins, half a metre tall. POA at Jeremy Sabine

    A contemporary work interpreting the Songlines traced by women making their way to the  Western Desert Ancestral site of Munni Munni by Marlene Young Nungurrayi, born 1971 ( £7000 from Arjmand Aziz, specialist in Australian indigenous art)

    A contemporary work interpreting the Songlines traced by women making their way to the Western Desert Ancestral site of Munni Munni by Marlene Young Nungurrayi, born 1971 (£7,000 from Arjmand Aziz, specialist in Australian indigenous art)

    A powerfully abstract mbulu ngulu reliquary figure of the Kota people, Gabon, West Africa.  Kota mbulu ngulu are unique among African sculptural forms in their combination of wood covered with hammered metal, in this instance copper.  (£11,500 from David Malik)

    A powerfully abstract mbulu ngulu reliquary figure of the Kota people, Gabon, West Africa. Kota mbulu ngulu are unique among African sculptural forms in their combination of wood covered with hammered metal, in this instance copper. (£11,500 from David Malik)