AmAA

COLLECTION

Collection of the museum of African Art private collections. Alexandro Collection AmAA contain 250 objects of African art with focus on musical instrument, sacral dance rituals. highlight of the collection anthropomorphic Lute from Congo, Ritual King Smoking pipe from Nyamwezi people, Bronze Horse Rider from Benin Musical instrument Mangbetu people from Congo;
Ritual Dancing Mask from Senufu people Cote d’Ivoire
Madonna Lake Natron;
Madonna and Childe – Congo;
Horse Head form Sacral Barque to transport Souls to Underworld.

Collection purchased in the period of 30 years by Alexander Barabanov through Private Acquisition Fund þɌ³. Alexander’s FinTech company Q5D Lab is a sponsor of the Project AmAA for the period of last 10 years – Q5Δ Laβ. 

Featured Art from Collection

Madonna with a Child

FIGURATIVE LUTE
Mangbetu people

[AmAA-10212]

ANTROPOMORPHISR HARP
Mangbetu people

[AmAA-10250]

ROYAL SMOKING PIPE
Nyamwezi people

[AmAA-10350]

FASHION AND WEDDINF DALLS
Mfipa people

[AmAA-10512]

FASHION AND WEDDINF DALLS
mfipa people

[AmAA-10515]

BEADED HARP
Low Nubia

[AmAA-10220]

acquired
þɌ³
Acquisition Fund

sponsored by
Q5Δ Laβ

FETISH POWER FIGURE
,fipa people

[AmAA-10520]

FASHION AND WEDDINF DALLS
mfipa people

[AmAA-10512]

BAMBARA MASK
Senegal

[AmAA-10711]

TANGANYIKA 

Bulu – Chagga – Datoga – Haya – Iraqw  – Gogo  – Hehe  – Maasai  – Makonde  – Mfipa – Nyamwezi  – Nyaturu
Pangwa – Pare – Pogoro – Sambaa – Sukuma  – Tchokwe – Yao – Zaramu

BOTSWANA – ZIMBABWE – ZAMBIA – NAMIBIA – MADAGASCAR – MOZAMBIQUE – SA

Betsileo –Betsimisaraka – Herero – Himba –Kalanga
Makonde –Merina – Nama – Ndebele
Ovambo – Sakalava – San – Sena – Shona – Sotho – Tonga
Tsonga (Shangaan) – Tswana (Batswana) – dominant group
San / Basarwa (Bushmen) – indigenous
Xhosa –Yao – Zulu

CONGO – ANGOLA 

Bakongo (Kongo) People – Western Congo and coastal Angola / Art: Famous for nkisi nkondi (power figures) 

Luba People 

Kuba People – South-central Congo – Art: Known for their geometric textile art, masks, and ceremonial carvings. Kuba art is among the most collectible in African art history.

Mangbetu People – Region: Northeastern Congo
Art: Recognized for elongated head shapes (once practiced through skull-binding), he harp-like instruments (nanga and kundi) and complex polyphonic singing.
Mysticism: – Mangbetu associate beauty 

Lega (Balega) People – Eastern Congo (Kivu region)
Art: Ivory and wooden figures (bwami) used in moral and initiatory education; form part of the Bwami society, a philosophical system regulating ethics and social conduct.

Pygmy (Mbuti) People – Ituri Forest, northeastern Congo
Music: Extraordinary polyphonic singing, known as one of the world’s most complex musical traditions. 

KENYA – UGANDA – SUDAN – EPHIOPIA

Acholi / Afar / Amhara / Azande
Bari / Baganda / Bakiga / Banyankole / Basoga
Dinka (largest) / Gurage / Iteso
Kalenjin / Kamba / Kikuyu / Luhya / Luo
Maasa / Nuer
Oromo (largest)
Shilluk / Murlei
Sidama / Somali / Tigray

SENEGAL – COTE D’UVOIRE – GHANA – NIGERIA – BENIN – GABON

Adja – Agni (Akan) – east
Akan (Ashanti) – Baoulé (Akan) – Bariba / Bété (Kru) – western Côte d’Ivoire
Ewe / Ga-Dangme
Dagomba – Dendi – Gonja
Dan / Yacouba (Mandé) / Gonja / Igbo – Ijaw – Kanuri – Kota / Malinké (Mandé) – north and northwest / Kroumen – coastal areas / Hausa / Jola – Fon (largest)
Mandinka / Malinké (Mandé) – north and northwest / Pulaar – Fulani / 
Tiv
Senufo / Serer /
Wolof (largest) 
Yoruba

ACHIEVED IN GOLD JEWELLERY

Amhara (Ethiopia)
Amazigh / Berber (Morocco, Algeria
Berber (Morocco, Algeria)
Kuba
Luba (DR Congo)
Mandé (Mali, Guinea)\
Malinke (Mali, Guinea)
Mapungubwe / Shona ancestors (Zimbabwe) Ancient gold jewelry and artifactd – Famous Golden Rhinocero
Oromo & (Ethiopia)
Yoruba (Nigeria & Benin)\

MALI – SOMALI – BURKINA FASO – CAR

Bambara (Bamana) – largest / Banda – Bobo – Darod – Dir – Dogon – Gurunsi – Gbaya  – Fulani (Peul)  – Hawiye / Mandjia – Mbuti (Pygmy) – Mossi – Sara – Isaaq / Lobi – Mandinka / Malinké – Mossi (largest) – Rahanweyn – Songhai – Tuareg