28 RIGHT: Kap kap. New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, PNG. Shell (Tridacna gigas), tortoise shell, fi ber. D: 14 cm. To be offered by Galerie Laurent Dodier at TEFAF. BELOW: Figure. Songye, DR Congo. Wood, metal, hide, teeth, elephant hair, kaolin. H: 50 cm. To be offered by Galerie Didier Claes at TEFAF. ART in motion LEFT: Seated fi gure. Baule, Côte d’Ivoire. Wood. H: 46 cm. To be offered by Galerie Bernard de Grunne at TEFAF. RIGHT: Hook, agiba. Kerewa, Gulf Province, PNG. Wood. H: 94.6 cm. To be offered by Entwistle Gallery at TEFAF. FAR RIGHT: Nkisi. Kongo, DR Congo. Wood, metal, mirror, fi ber, glass. H: 26 cm. To be offered by Galerie Lucas Ratton at TEFAF. BELOW: Reliquary guardian fi gure. Obamba, Kota, Gabon. Wood, brass, copper. H: 52.2 cm. To be offered by Galerie Laurent Dodier at TEFAF. TEFAF Maastricht—TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most prestigious art and antiques fair, will host collectors, museum professionals, and art lovers from around the world from March 11–20, 2016, at the Centre des Expositions et des Congrès. More than 270 internationally known dealers will participate this year, including five major figures in the tribal art world, who will—and this is a first—be showing grouped together on the same aisle. Just to the right upon entering will be Galerie 1492 from Paris, which is devoted to Pre-Columbian art. Lucas Ratton, who this year is showing at TEFAF for the second time, is next and will feature a group of high-quality works, highlights of which will include a Fang reliquary guardian figure from Gabon, formerly in two distinguished American collections, those of J. J. Klejman and George Lois. He will also show a fine Kongo nkisi figure from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which still retains its entire magic charge. It was brought to France at the beginning of the twentieth century and has been the property of one French family ever since. The power this small object emanates is inversely proportional to its 26-centimeter height. The third exhibitor on “tribal row,” Entwistle Gallery, will reflect the high standards it always maintains with a display that will include, among other major pieces, a Kerewa agibe from the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea, formerly in the
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