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Who’s Who

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African Art

AA     First: Autumn 1967

        African Arts. Magazine, Los Angeles-California. A quarterly devoted to the graphic, plastic, performing, and literary arts of Africa.

AAN     First: 1971

        Arts d'Afrique Noire. Magazine, Arnouville-France. Quarterly devoted to the arts of Africa.

AMRAC (1910-)

        Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. From 1961 the title has been changed in: Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.

ARSOM (1928-)

Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. Koninklijke Académie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen.

ASR (1958-)

       African Studies Review. The Journal of the African Studies Association.

AAA Galerie (1959-1979, May)

        Paris-France. Rue de l'Abbaye. See: René & Simone Rasmussen.

Aalderink, Kunsthandel (1929-present)

        Gallery, Amsterdam-The Netherlands. Specialized in Asian art. Also Oceanic & African Art. First owner Aalderink deceased, since 1973 new owner: Wim Bouman.

Aaronson, Mr.

        Coll. Buyer Fang figure, Soth.L. 13 July, 1971.

Aas, Norbert, Dr. (1950-)

        Scholar, curator, and art consultant. Bayreuth-Germany. Ph.D. in African (colonial) History/Anthropology. His consultancy is called Art Arc (contemporary African art). Author: Den Lauf der Dinge beeinflussen. Der nigerianische Künstler Obiora Udechukwu. Bayreuth: Bumerang-Verlag, 1999.

Abadie, Maurice (1885-)

        Scholar, French. Author: Afrique Centrale: La Colonie du Niger. Paris: Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927.

Abalogu, Uchegbulam N.

        Scholar, Nigerian. Author: "Ekpe Society in Arochukwu and Bende." Nigeria Magazine, Lagos 1978.

Abalu (ca. 1930-)

        Dealer. Foumban-Cameroon. Sold many important Cameroon masks.

Abasi, Augustine H. Kututera

        Author: "The Kingdoms of West Africa: 15th-18th Centuries." In: Sabbe & Gistelinck, Kronkonbali. Leuven, 1991.

Abbate, Francesco

        Italian. Author: African Art and Oceanic Art. London: Octopus, 1972.

Abbeloos, R.V.

        Belgian. Author: "De sekte 'Lilwa'" Band VII, Leopoldville, 1949.

Abbia Gallery (19..-1970s)

        Sydney-Australia. See owner: Lonis Brouckxou.

Abbott, Susan (1945-)

        Scholar, American. Author: Full-Time Farmers and Weekend Wives: Change & Stress among rural Kikuyu Women. Thesis University of North Carolina, 1974.

Abbott, William Louis, Dr. (1860-1936)

        Fieldcollector? Prov. for ethnographical material from Kenya in National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,D.C. Author: "Ethnological Collections in the U.S. National Museum from Kilima-Njaro, East Africa." In: Report of the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1892. Washington, D.C.

ABC Gallery

       Knokke-Belgium. Tribal Arts. Owners: Martin & Yvette Janssen. Started dealing in 1950.

Abdel-Rasoul, Kawthar

        Author: "Funeral Rites in Nigeria." Wiener Völkerkundliche Mitteilungen, Bd.IV, 1956.

Abderrahim-Reichlen, Anne Marie

        Author: "La poterie du Mzâb, Algérie, et sa fonction sociale dans la Cummuneauté ibâdite." In: John Picton, 1984.

Abecassis, Fred

        Artist/coll.? A Portuguese painter. Prov. Tshokwe figure, 1890s.

Abel, Antoinie

        Married to Henri Abel. Author: "Utilisation des poids à peser l'or en Côte d'Ivoire." J.S.A.,XL­III,I, Paris, 1973.

Abel, Henri

        Scholar?/fieldcollector. Studied the use of goldweights in Côte d'Ivoire, 1950s. Henri assembled a collection goldweights, now in the Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris. Author: "Poids à peser l'or en Côte d'Ivoire." Bulletin IFAN, 16, part B, 1954. See also: Josette Rivallain.

Abel, Reverend Père

        Missionary/fieldcollector. French? Prov. (1911), Chri.L. 13 October 1978, lot 338.

Abeledo, Enrique

        Fieldcollector. Swiss? The collection of 150 objects and documentation which was essembled by Enrique in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya in 1979 was acquired by the Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva in 1986.

Abell, A.F.

        Author: Notes on the Iebu-Remo District of Ijebu Province. Unpublished typewritten manuscript. Nigerian Museum, Lagos-Nigeria, 1935.

Abemba, Bulaimu J.

        Author: La collectivité locale des Wasongola (territoire de Kindu, Zaïre). Brussels, Les cahiers du Cedaf, 1972.

Abemba, J.I.

        See: Abemba, Bulaimu J.

Abimbola, Wande, Professor (26 June, 1936-)

        Scholar, especially on Ifa. Born in Oyo in Western Nigeria. He attented the University of Lagos, Nigeria from 1967-70, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois from 1965-66 and University College, Ibadan, Nigeria from 1959-63, where he obtained B.A., Honors in History in 1963, an M.A. in linguistics and a Ph.D. in Literature in 1970. Senator for Oyo State in the new civilian government of Nigeria (1993). Formerly Professor of African Languages and Literatures & Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Author: Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa. Niamey, 1975.

Abiodun, Rowland O., Professor

        Scholar. John C.Newton Professor of Fine Arrts & Black Studies at Amherst College in Amherst, MA. Formerly Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts and Professor of Fine Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Co-author: Yoruba, nine centuries of African art and thought. New York: The Center for African Art, 1989. (With: Henry John Drewal & John Pemberton III).

Abir, Mordechai

        Author: "Southern Ethiopia." In: Pre-Colonial African Trade, ed. Richard Gray & David Birming­ham. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Abitbol, Michel

        Author: Tombouctou et les Arma: de la conquête marocaine du Soudan nigérien en 1591 à l’hégémonie de l’empire Peulh du Macina en 1833. Paris: Maissonneuve et Larose, 1979.

Ablé, Jean-Albert

        Author: Histoire et tradition politique du pays Abouré. Abidjan, 1978.

Aboriginals: Art of the First Person (1990-present)

        Gallery. Sanibel, Florida. Owners: William Ernest & Susanne Waites.

Aborigo, Fondation

        Owned by Maurice Bonnefoy. Sold 71 African and Oceanic objects in SALE: Jean-Louis Picard, Paris 5 December, 1994. (Lots 17-88).

Abraham, Roy Clive, Captain (1890-1963)

        English Anthropological Officer, Northern Nigeria. Served in the British Army 1914-1923; Government anthropologist for Nigerian Government for six years; Lecturer in Amharic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1948-1951; Published works on Hausa, Idoma, Somali, Tiv, and Yoruba. Author: The Tiv People. Lagos, 1933.

Abraham, William, Professor

        Scholar, Africa philosopher, University of Ghana. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Abrahams, Roger D.

        Scholar. Co-editor: After Africa: Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Slaves, Their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. (With John F.Szwed)

Abrahams, Raphael Garvin

        Scholar. Lectureship in Archaeology and Anthropology, Churchill College in England. Author: The Peoples of Greater Unyamwezi. Tanzania/London: International African Institute, 1967.

Abrahamsson, Hans

        Author: "The Origin of Death." Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensa III. Uppsala, 1951.

Abrams, Alvin & Estelle

        Coll. New York City, N.Y./Connecticut. Collects African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, started in the 1970’s. Objects in Robbins/Nooter: African Art in American Collections, 1989. Several objects in the sale: Soth.N.Y., 15 November 2002.

Abrams, George & Joan

        Coll. Great Neck, N.Y. Sponsor of The Center for African Art, New York.

Abrams, Phillip

        Coll. U.S.A. Mende mask in AA,XVIII,Nr.3, Los Angeles, 1985.

Abubakar, Nurudeen, Dr.

        Scholar, Nigerian. Center for Nigerian Cultural Studies, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Accam, Theo N.N.

        Ghanaian? Co-author: Dangme and Klama Proverbs. Legon, 1972. (With Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu).

Achebe, Chinua (1930-)

        Nigerian, novalist. Author: Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann, 1958.

Achi, Bala

        Author: "Arms and Armour in the Warfare of Pre-Colonial Hausaland." African Study Monographs 8,3, 1988.

Achten, Lode (?-1933, 26 March)?

        Belgian. Author: "Over de geschiedenis der Bakuba." Congo 1-2, Brussels 1929.

Ackah, Christian Abraham

        Ghanaian. Author: "The Historical Significance of Some Ghanian Festivals." Ghana Notes and Queries 5, 1963.

Ackerknecht, Erwin Heinz (1906-1988)

        Author: "Problems of Primitive Medicine." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2, 1942.

Ackerman, Mrs.

        Coll. Buyer Yoruba mask Soth.L., 3 July, 1961.

Ackley, David A.

        Dealer/coll. Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1970+. Author: Observations on style: selections from the African collection 1989. D.A.Ackley, 1989.

Acland, Mr.

        Coll. Buyer 3 lots, Soth.L. 8 July, 1969.

Aco, Samuel

        Scholar. Institut National du Patrimoine Cultural. Luanda, Angola.

Acquier, Jean-Louis (1946-)

        Author: Le Burundi. Collection architecture traditionelles. Marseille: Editions Parenthèses, 1986.

Acquaye, Saka

        A Ghanaian dramatist, since 1971 serving on the Arts Council of Ghana. Author: "Modern Folk Opera in Ghana." AA,vol.IV,2, Los Angeles, 1971.

Adam (Auguste)?

        Belgian. Author: "Les Momvus." La Belgique Coloniale II, 1896.

Adam, Auguste (1875-1957)

        Belgian. Author: Le Katanga, province belge. Liège: H.Vaillant-Carmanne, 1911.

Adam, Christine

        Belgian. Author: Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika (uit privé-collecties). Antwerpen: Galerij Brabo, 1981.

Adam, Erfried, Dr. (1945-)

        Author: `Tribalismus' und ungleiche Entwicklung in Zambia. Zur politike Ökonomie gesellschaftli­cher Konflikte. Bad Hennef, 1980.

Adam, Guy / Guy Duponcheel

        Artist/coll. Belgian tribal art bookdealer. Has a stand on market of the Grand Sablon in Brussels. Changed his name to Duponcheel in 1996, his sister was married to Christian Duponcheel. Sold his collection African art in 1998.

Adam, Jérôme

        Author: Notes sur les variations phonétiques dans les dialects Batéké. Première Conférence Internationale des Africanistes de l'Ouest. Dakar, IFAN. II, 1945.

Adam, Leonhard (1891-1960)

        Scholar. Born in Berlin-Germany, is an Australian citicen by naturalization. Was sixteen years of age when he became interested in Tribal art. Studied ethnology, law, and sinology at the University and Oriental Seminar of Berlin and made a special study of tribal material culture and art at the Berlin Ethnographical Museum. Author: Primitive Art. London: Cassel, 1940.

Adam-Tessier, Maxime (1920-2000)

        Artist/coll. Born in Rouen-France, sculptor. Objects in expo cat.: Arts Primitifs dans les Ateliers d'Artistes. Paris: Musée de l'Homme, 1967.

Adametz, Lieutenant (Alexander Friedrich)?

        Colonial Officer. German lieutenant stationed in Cameroon. Fieldcollector in the region: Bagam & Bali. Prov. for Cameroon material in MFV, Berlin 1907-1910.

Adamolekun, Lapido

        Scholar, Nigerian. Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria [1981]. Writer on Nigerian Politics.

Adams, Alfons M., Father

        Missionary, German. Author: Lindi und sein Hinterland. Berlin: St. Ottilien Post Turkenfeld, 1903.

Adams, Albert G. (1870-1938)?

        Coll. Presbyterian Mission, Cameroon. Objects in "African Negro Art" ed. by Sweeney New York, 1935.

Adams, Gene

        Coll. New York. Provenance for Yoruba bronze, Soth-N.Y, 6 May 1998.

Adams, John, Captain (?-1866)

        Author: Remarks on the Country Extending from the Cape Palmas to the River Congo, including observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. With an Appendix containing an Account of the European Trade with the West Coast of Africa. London: G. & W.B.Whittaker, 1823.

Adams, Marie Jeanne

        See: Adams, Monni J.

Adams, Mary

        Coll.? Boston? Prov. Mende figure in private collection, Boston, 1933.

Adams, Monni J.

        Scholar. Wellesley College, Massachusetts [1981]. Research associate: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge. Taught African & Native American art at Harvard. Author: Designs for living - Symbolic Communication in African Art. Cambridge: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1982.

Adams, Sarah

        Graduate student in the History of Art Department at Yale University. Author: “Praise Her Beauty Well. Uri from the Body to Cloth” in expo cat.: Call and Response Journeys in African Art. New Haven: Yale University, 2000

Adams, William Howard, Mr. & Mrs.

        Coll. Washington. Writer? Objects in expo cat. Museum Washington, 1972.

Adams, William Yewdale (1927-)

        Author: Ceramic Industries of medieval Nubia. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Adamson, Hans Cristian

        Co-author: Das Kaiserreich der Schlangen. Geheimes Priestertum in Ostafrika. Reisebericht eines amerikanische Forschers um 1920 in das Untergrundreich eines einflussreichen Geheimkults. Berlin, 1986. (With Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan).

Adamson, Joy (1910-1980)

Naturalist. Following an education in Vienna and two divorces, Austrian-born Joy Gessner, living in Kenya from 1939, married George Adamson (1944), a British game warden who had worked in Kenya as a gold prospector, goat trader, and safari hunter from 1924. She won international renown with her African wildlife books, especially those describing how the couple raised a lion cub, Elsa, and returned it to its natural habitat. Author: The Peoples of Kenya. New York: Harcourt-Brace and World, Inc., 1967.

Adamu, Mahdi

        Author: The Hausa Factor in West African History. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1978.

Adandé, Alexandre, Dr.

       Scholar. Porto Novo, République Populaire du Bénin. Formerly Minister, Senegal. Author: "Les récades des rois du Dahomey." Institut Français d'Afrique Noire,