African wood carving of a lion and its cub. [Photo/VCG] African wood carving enjoys an international reputation of having a bold, passionate and unadorned style. The art of wood carving in China's ...

African art is as diverse as its culture. There are certain styles though that are well-known. One of the most immediately recognizable, and most widely admired, is the wood-carving of the Makonde ...

Discover shared cultural threads between South Africa and five African nations - how our unity is woven into song, food, and art. The post Africa’s cultural bond: Five countries that feel like home to ...

This carving of what I think is a native rifleman of the Kings African Rifles belonged to Doctor L S B Leakey of Olduvai Man fame (1903-1972). As a small boy in the early 1940s I lived in a very large ...

TRAVERSE CITY Hamilton Banda has never visited Traverse City or its Dennos Museum Center. But the money he earns selling his wood carvings at the northern Michigan museum helps him buy fertilizer and ...

An artist works on a piece of artwork at a marketplace in Okahandja, Namibia, on Sept. 20, 2022. Namibian artists are maximizing wood carving tradition to preserve cultural heritage and access bigger ...

People have been living in the Negev Desert for thousands of years. One of the ancient cities in this area was Tel Malḥata, near today’s Arad Valley in southern Israel. Archaeologists have been ...