tribal miami art show

  is a new tribal art fair held concurrently with
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
one of the world’s largest art events

tribal miami art show December 3-6, 2009
Miami Beach, Florida

An International Show and Sale
of fine antique tribal art with 25+dealers

 at the

Mossgreen auction-Aboriginal & Oceanic art

An auction with quite high estimates, but some fine material like 

Lot number: 31 a Wealth Spatula, Gabaela Massim, Southeastern New Guinea, Circa 1900 estimate 1,500$

see the catalog online:

Reinventing a colonial-era Africa Museum

It will take almost $100 million to renovate Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Persona (buy the catalog)  Anne-Marie Bouttiaux…

TERVUREN, Belgium — Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Congo’s independence from Belgium, but the Royal Museum for Central Africa still seems lodged within the colonial era.

Dusty cabinets are cluttered with moldering stuffed wildlife, mementos of expeditions led by pith-helmeted officers and jumbles of tribal artifacts with little explanation of their function or meaning.

FROM THE JOHN PERRY COLLECTION A cabinet of curiosities
Tuesday August 18 2009 Auction

John Perry Cabinet

John Perry is recognized as one of New Zealand’s leading authorities on ethnographica, social history, folk art and plenty else besides. John has held senior roles as a director of a public museum to his world famous in New Zealand Helensville emporium Global Village Antiques. A+O is delighted to be able to offer a selection from his vast collection as a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. These are in the main rare and unusual smaller gems of folk art, NZ ceramics, photography, Pacificana, artefacts, Oriental pieces and the hard to explain. This will be a catalogue and auction to remember.

Members of this group can read the details see more images and links to the pdf catalog below