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An archival gallery dedicated to the arts of West Africa with an emphasis on the Akan. Enquire for collection exhibition loans. Based in NYC

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Box for carrying the gold dust or nuggets depicting 10 birds on its top

Copper alloy - 7,2 cm

Provenances
- Jean-Paul Delcourt, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Giovanni Franco Scanzi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Publications
- Adolfo Bartolomucci, “African Currency - Monete tribali dell’Africa subsahariana”, African Art Gallery, Milano, Italy, 2012, p. 142
- Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, “Micromonumentalité : l’éloge du minuscule dans l’art africain”, 5 Continents Editions, Milano, Italy, 2015, p. 65
- Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter, “Micromonumentality : a tribute to miniature works of african art”, 5 Continents Editions, Milano, Italy, 2015, p. 65

Photo courtesy Francesco Pachì

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#akanminiatures #akanbronzes #africanminiatures #africanbronzes #peronicollection

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#kwekuokokroko

KWEKU OKOKROKO
1. Maternal figure breastfeeding child.
Graphite and acrylic on paper
29.7 x 42.0 cm
2026

MOOSCOLLECTION
2.An Abron (Akan) maternity figure.
Ghana. 17.5" H. Carved wood, brass tacks, pigment, glass beads. Abron maternity figures are relatively rare in comparison to the neighboring Baule in Côte d'Ivoire. Ex collection of Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao and Dr. Nii S. Quao. Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao was the African Union's Ambassador to the United States.

MOOSCOLLECTION x KWEKU OKOKROKO
// Kweku Okokroko Gallery

This gallery is a collaborative project between Mooscollection and Kweku Okokroko. It serves to orchestrate a juxtaposition of the cultural elements that are found in the paintings of Kweku Okokroko, to the artefacts that are in Mooscollection.

visit mooscollection.com to view more.
link in bio✨

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1. An Asante Stool in the Moos Collection.

2. Painting Detail of an Asante Blackened Ancestral Shrine Stool (Akongua Tumtum) in a painting by Kweku Okokroko.

3. Excerpt of a lecture by H.E. Dr. Peter Gyawu-Kyem "Defining the Role of the Stool in Akan Cheiftaaincy"
at the African University College of Commuications (AUCC).

Video Courtesy of the Kwabena Nkwetia Centre of Africana Studies (KNCAS).

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MOOSCOLLECTION x KWEKU OKOKROKO

A collaborative project between Mooscollection @mooscollection and Kweku Okokroko @kweku.okokroko

Mooscollection is an online gallery dedicated to the conservation and understanding of the arts of West Africa. The collection was founded and curated by Dean Hamerly and is located in New York City.

Kweku Okokroko is an artist from West Africa, Ghana. A painter and writer whose work is centered around the culture, identity, and history of the various ethnic goups that make up the modern day Ghana and its environs. He currently studies at the University of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria @akbild

This collaborative project serves to orchestrate a juxtaposition of the cultural elements that are found in the paintings of Kweku Okokroko, to the artefacts that are in Mooscollection.

Visit the ''Kweku Okokroko gallery'' on www.mooscollection.org to learn more about the project.

Link in Bio✨

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rare and very beautiful Pende buffalo rider with polychromy and old original repairs, probably from the early 20th century.
a comparable piece, most likely by the same sculptor or workshop, from the collection of Barbara and Joseph Goldenberg, donated to the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
DRCongo region kwilu

ex dr.jürg baillod
collection caflisch

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Inland Niger Delta - Most probably Gimbala

A very ancient bronze depicting a man with a stick in the left hand

It is still intact & in perfect conditions
- despite its fragile casting with a very thin thickness
- despite its several centuries of life & use

The genitals of the figure seem to represent a human face : but I don't know if this is something intentional or if it is just their stylization

Please note its deep multi-layered excavation patina

Ex Galerie Entwistle Paris
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Copper alloy - 8 cm

Publications
- Pierluigi Peroni & Wilfried Glar, “L’art du métal en Afrique de l’Ouest - Petits objets issus de la collection de Pierluigi Peroni”, Éditions Toguna, Loze, France, 2020

Photo courtesy Francesco Pachì @francescopachi

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Pende figurine in bone

The small whole figurines of this ethnic group are generally made of ivory - Those made of bone and even those made of metal are the most difficult to find - And in fact there are few examples known

The ítem of this post is definitely a pendant due to the hole passing through the neck of the figure

Its patina and its many signs of use demonstrate that it is a very old object that has been used tribally for a long time

Ex Salle de Ventes du Béguinage @salledeventesdubeguinage

Bone - 8,8 cm

Photo courtesy Salle de Ventes du Béguinage

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very early ogboni rods probably 19th cent. with very nice patina 47 cm bronze/yellow cast
from a legendary collection of elsa bloch- diener prominent art dealer especially for greek roman art of antiquity

Among the Yoruba, in south-west Nigeria, there is the Ogboni secret society, which can determine the social and religious life of the people (even today!); through its own jurisdiction, in healing the sick, through fortune-telling, etc. When joining this Ogboni secret society, each new member (men and women) receives a pair of such “Edan sticks”. They represent a man and a woman and are connected by eyelets on their heads with a thin iron chain. At Ogboni gatherings, these figurative metal staffs are hung around the participants' necks and are regarded as a kind of “membership card”. The “Edan rods” always consist of an iron rod that protrudes from the bottom of the figures.

the music is by the austrian composer viktor ullmann born 1898 cieszyn poland - 1944 auschwitz he was of jewish origin
initially imprisoned in theresienstadt concentration camp he wrote: "it should only be emphasized that my musical work was encouraged and not inhibited by theresienstadt, that we were by no means merely sitting lamenting by Babylon's rivers and that our cultural will was adequate to our will to live."
on october 16, 1944, ullmann was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau together with pavel haas and hans krása and murdered by gassing shortly after his arrival.

ex collection elsa bloch-diener
collection caflisch

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💫Inspiration💫
Agni (Anyi) boy, Côte d’Ivoire, village of Essikro, late 90ies.
Thank you @mooscollection for this beautiful picture !

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HAPPY 2025 FROM LEBEGIVINI

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With reference to the Akan goldweights this is definitely my favorite shape & also the one that I find most interesting among all

These are real grasshoppers casted directly from nature
- I study them from many years
- I have built a vast collection of these specific objects
- I am constantly looking for new interesting examples

Akan | Ashanti

Both the objects of this post are in copper alloy casted directly from nature

I find that the first photo of the post with two grasshoppers is not only beautiful but especially interesting since it depicts two bronzes that despite representing two insects of the same species are however completely different in size & patina

The smallest item on the top of the first image of the post
- 3,7 cm
- ex Auction House Zemanek
- ex collection Albert Gsell : item collected by him in Ghana between 1897 & 1907
- item published on the book “L’art du métal en Afrique de l’Ouest”, Pierluigi Peroni & Wilfried Glar, Éditions Toguna, Loze, France, 2020

The largest item on the bottom of the first image of the post
- 7,1 cm
- ex collection Klaus-Jochen Krueger
- ex collection Klaus-Jochen Schneider
- item published on the book “L’art du métal en Afrique de l’Ouest”, Pierluigi Peroni & Wilfried GLAR, Éditions Toguna, Loze, France, 2020

Photo courtesy Francesco Pachì

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This object is neither important nor expensive but it is a very good example of the bronze productions of West Africa
- it is an interesting & uncommon figurine
- it was casted with a lot of details
- it has a great old patina

Its ethnic group of origin is not attributable with certainty
- it could be possible to define it as Lobi area | culture because of some of its features & especially for what concerns his face
- but I also see in it some typical characteristics of the Dan groups : such as its legs
- and it depicts also other traits of other small groups of the same regions of the two above ethnicities

My belief is that this bronze could come from Ivory Coast & I would be quite sure of this statement also based on my considerations above

In any case & because of its mix of styles & to avoid uncertain hypotheses : on my files I have classified this female figurine as “West Africa - Probably Ivory Coast”

Ex Kegel-Konietzko & Dorn (Alex Dorn)
- ex Lore Kegel who collected it in situ in 1953
- ex Boris Kegel-Konietzko

Copper alloy - 7 cm

Photo courtesy
- Wilfried Glar for the images with white background showing various sides of the object
- Alex Dorn for the images with grey background

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