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Title: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: gerspee on June 09, 2013, 02:52:04 AM
Own this African art with pregnant females . Looks like a container or drinking flask .  Who has any clue what country made and the possible age ?  thanks
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: bigwull on June 09, 2013, 04:54:10 AM
with over 2000 tribes in Africa....where do you want us to start....
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: gerspee on June 09, 2013, 05:09:30 AM
Well . First of all the country maybe ? The way the Africans form there figures is very distinguish to the area . So it is possible to pinpoint a location and after that maybe the tribe involved . 
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: bigwull on June 09, 2013, 05:47:16 AM
Where did you get this....if my memory serves me well....you are in Nederland...if you got it there....then there is a good chance that it came from one of the Dutch colonies...in Africa....see list...

    Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
    Arguin Island (in Mauritania)
    Dutch Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana, including El Mina)
    Goree (in Senegal)
    Moçambique (Delagoa Bay)
    Sao Tomé
    South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: sugarcube5419 on June 09, 2013, 09:02:05 AM
bigwull that was interesting. 
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: mart on June 09, 2013, 09:15:58 AM
Bigwull is right !! To determine that would take extensive study !! Most of us do not have the kind of time to research a subject so vast !! If it were me,, I would start with the item itself and work back from there with the history ect !! Easier to track it down that way than to wait years on us !!  Sorry !!
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: sugarcube5419 on June 09, 2013, 09:24:55 AM
hi mart, nice seeing you-planted my potatoes yesterday a first for me.  Everybody I told that to said I was crazy, they are way too much work and so cheap to buy.  That certainly made me feel better.  not.

Do you plant them?
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: mart on June 09, 2013, 05:53:17 PM
Oh yes Sugarcube !! A row of reds and a row of whites !!  Tell them cheap maybe,, but at least yours will not have sat in a warehouse somewhere for a month or more !! And you know how yours are grown !!  This is my grocery store,,,,!!
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: bigwull on June 09, 2013, 06:49:49 PM
any of these little fellows in there.... ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: sugarcube5419 on June 09, 2013, 07:14:18 PM
wow mart your garden is massive--how do you keep up--gives home cooked a whole new meaning--you have huge plants ours are just starting we have had so much rain and cold on top of a crazy cold winter. 
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: greenacres on June 09, 2013, 07:29:40 PM
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=african+tribal+statues&qpvt=african+tribal+statues&FORM=IGRE           

I was looking through images. You can learn a lot from that alone.
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: greenacres on June 09, 2013, 07:34:17 PM
Oh, by the way mart that's pretty impressive. My friend's son is a "Rhodes Scholar". He's a professor that teaches "Urban Gardening". Your garden could inspire a lot of people.
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: mart on June 09, 2013, 08:09:14 PM
That's the small garden behind the house !! Have a larger one for corn, peas, beans, watermelon and cantaloupe !! Started sauerkraut today so a few of those cabbages are now missing !!  Gardening is simple !! Some people analyze it to death !! 
Gotta go look at that link GA !!
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: fancypants on June 09, 2013, 09:44:22 PM
I'd include Haiti in the list of possible country-of-origin for these ladies too , gerspee .
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: mart on June 10, 2013, 06:08:49 AM
Something for fertility perhaps ??
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: bigwull on June 10, 2013, 06:17:14 AM
here you are Mart,...this should do you nicely..... ;D
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: wendy177 on June 10, 2013, 07:01:47 AM
Beautiful garden mart!!!  You have a wonderful green thumb!!
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: mart on June 10, 2013, 07:40:19 AM
No, Wendy just good old Texas dirt !!

Do you think I need fertilizer ?? ???
Title: Re: African art but from what country and what age ?
Post by: sugarcube5419 on June 10, 2013, 07:43:09 AM
uh, if you need fertilizer i won't ever send a pic of my garden....smile at you