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The Niger Bend Catalog
A Selection of Our Best Items



Categories:
2 Dimensional Art - Signs and Paintings
Animals - Chameleons
Animals - Elephants
Animals - Horses & Equestrians
Animals - Turtles
Beads
Brass figures
Catalog
Ceramics
Clothing
Containers
Contemporary Metal
Contemporary Wood
Couples & Twins
Currency
Doors
Drums & Musical Instruments
Erotic Art
Ethnographic items
Furniture
Games
Gold Trade in Africa
Haitian Art - Voodoo Flags
Iron
Islamic Art
Jewelry
Jewelry Components
Leather Traditional Items
Market baskets
Masks
Neolithic items
Photographs
Pipes
Statues - Mothers with children
Textiles
Toys
Travel in Africa
Weapons
Wood statues
Wood Statues - Ibejis

Tribes:
Abron
Ashanti
Baga
Bamana
Bamileke
Bariba
Baule
Benoue
Bete
Bobo
Bozo
Bwa
Djenne Djeno
Djerma
Dogon
Ewe
Fang
Fanti
Fon
Fulani
Gourmantche
Guro
Haitian
Hausa
Ibibio
Ibo
Ikenga
Ikiti
Kuba
Kurumba
Lobi
Malinke
Mauritanian
Moba
Mossi
Nafana
Nake
Ngonde
No tribal association
Nupe
Orobo
Senufo
Tagbana
Tamberma
Tchamba
Tuareg
unknown tribe
Wodaabe
Wolof
Yaure
Yoruba

Countries:
All Subsaharan countries
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Congo
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Haiti
Ivory Coast
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Togo
West Africa
Abron
(click on photos for larger images)

photoFirst page - All Subsaharan countries - Abron
Each of the photos in this section is a scan from the print catalog we used to publish. That catalog is no longer available in print form. These are large images and take a couple minutes to download. Please be patient. Please email us with your price requests. Wholesale purchases require a copy of your resale certificate and a minimum order of $250.

photoBeauty salon signs - Togo - Abron $400.00
Barbershop signs, such as the one shown below, are common throughout Africa. Comparable signs advertising beauty salons for women may exist everywhere but they have reached their highest point of artistic expression in Togo, in my opinion. This and the rest of those signs on this page are exemplary of that tradition. This sign measures 28 x 24". We bought this sign on the street where some women maintained their salon. It was hinged at the top back to back in sandwich sign form together with another similar one which has been sold.

photoAnother Great Quality 2-sided Medicine Sign - Ghana - Abron $600.00
The larger white-background sign on this page advertises the same business as this one. I was attracted to the larger one which I saw along the side of a major thoroughfare in Accra, the captial of Ghana. When we approached the place itself, located off the main drag, alongside an open sewer, we found this sign in front of the shack where the business is located. Since I bought these two signs, I have been back to the same place and have seen that they have replaced these signs with other, less artistically desirable signs. Please click on this image to view the other sign of this same sign as well as a photo of the place itself. I took the photo as we were negotiating the purchase. This sign has been SOLD.

photoAnother 2-sided barbershop/beauty salon sign - Ghana - Abron $300.00
This is another 2-sided sign. That is it is a single signboard, painted on both sides. The two sides are inseparable. It measures 35 3/4 x 23 3/4". Please click to see the other side.

photoAnother 2-head beauty salon sandwich sign pair - Ivory Coast - Abron $500.00
Each measures 35 1/2 x 24". Please click to see the other one.

 
 
Categories: | 2 Dimensional Art - Signs and Paintings | Animals - Chameleons | Animals - Elephants | Animals - Horses & Equestrians | Animals - Turtles | Beads | Brass figures | Catalog | Ceramics | Clothing | Containers | Contemporary Metal | Contemporary Wood | Couples & Twins | Currency | Doors | Drums & Musical Instruments | Erotic Art | Ethnographic items | Furniture | Games | Gold Trade in Africa | Haitian Art - Voodoo Flags | Iron | Islamic Art | Jewelry | Jewelry Components | Leather Traditional Items | Market baskets | Masks | Neolithic items | Photographs | Pipes | Statues - Mothers with children | Textiles | Toys | Travel in Africa | Weapons | Wood statues | Wood Statues - Ibejis | Tribes: | Abron | Ashanti | Baga | Bamana | Bamileke | Bariba | Baule | Benoue | Bete | Bobo | Bozo | Bwa | Djenne Djeno | Djerma | Dogon | Ewe | Fang | Fanti | Fon | Fulani | Gourmantche | Guro | Haitian | Hausa | Ibibio | Ibo | Ikenga | Ikiti | Kuba | Kurumba | Lobi | Malinke | Mauritanian | Moba | Mossi | Nafana | Nake | Ngonde | No tribal association | Nupe | Orobo | Senufo | Tagbana | Tamberma | Tchamba | Tuareg | unknown tribe | Wodaabe | Wolof | Yaure | Yoruba | Countries: | All Subsaharan countries | Benin | Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Congo | Ethiopia | Gabon | Ghana | Guinea | Haiti | Ivory Coast | Mali | Mauritania | Niger | Nigeria | Senegal | Togo | West Africa |
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