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Stories of the artists and peoples behind the work: the sculptors, tribes, and traditions that have shaped our collection.
April 18, 2021Tribe ProfileWest Africa
The Lobi Tribe
The Lobi are a Voltaic-speaking people of southwestern Burkina Faso and northern Ghana, inhabitants of a semi-arid savannah frontier zone. Fiercely independent and historically resistant to both neig...
February 14, 2019Tribe ProfileWest Africa
The Baule Tribe
The Baule are an Akan people of central Côte d'Ivoire, descended from a group that migrated west from the Ashanti kingdom of present-day Ghana in the mid-18th century. Their founder,...