#primitive art

Ceramic napkin holder)

Tribal african art is raw.
Nyaga Wuru Kore mask. 
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‘charlie brown’, bronze 16cm.

Bronze sculpture of Charlie Brown, originally directly from a wax sculpture (as opposed to the usual method which is sculpted in clay, then cast in plaster, which is moulded into wax, then cast into bronze). I wanted the primitive, textured, handmade quality to remain and not to finish the surface so that it looked like a 3D generated piece. It’s about 6 and a half inches (16cm) tall and 3 and a half pounds (1.6 kilos) in weight.

Painted cervidae skin, 17th century, Illinois, United States.

When this cape is worn in a non traditional way - when the collar of the skin is right of the wearer’s head - the geometrical form of a powerful flying creature can be seen. Eagles, hawks and the spiritual creature “Thunderbird” are very important for Native American cultures. This cape could also be some kind of ritual shroud.

Photo by quaibranly.fr

gowns:

evidence that ancient paleolithic venus statues were made by women who were examining their own bodies and sculpting them from their own point of view, not, as previously assumed, exaggerated features from an outside perspective

source:toward decolonizing gender: female vision in the upper paleolithic, catherine hodge mccoid and leroy mcdermott, 1996

Reblogging this again on Mothers’ Day, hoping that stupid Tumblr doesn’t censor art and history again.

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