African Traditional Art

Sacred artwork of indigenous West and Central African religious traditions and their New World diaspora continuations, including Edo, Fon, Bamana, Yoruba and related Orisha-based practice. Belongs here: a power figure, crest, ritual object or painting whose subject is a traditional African deity, spirit or initiation society, whether made on the African continent or by its diaspora in the Americas, such as a Santeria-tradition Orisha painting. Does not belong here: a Christian or Islamic subject from the same continent, grouped under Christian Art or Islamic Art.