Würzburg auctioneers Zemanek-Münster will present their 57th sale of tribal art and artifacts on July 11. Augmenting the auction's offerings of traditional art will be a special "Wunderkammer Naturalia," featuring scores of natural history specimens and curiosities. Nearly 450 tribal objects will be put before the bidders, chiefly African masks and statuary accompanied by a number of fine Oceanic and Indonesian works.

Yann Ferrandin of Paris will open a new exhibition of Kongo art at his gallery on Rue Visconti on June 11. Featuring a rich variety of Central African carvings and sculptural works with ties to traditional ritual life, Kongo - art magique will be on view until July 25.

The Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum is currently hosting some 150 works of North American Indian art from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, including archaeological, tribal, and contemporary pieces from the contexts of both ritual and daily life. The exhibition offers an opportunity to view rare Canadian artifacts juxtaposed with a selection of pieces from the Landesmuseum's collection, which have been in Germany since 1863. The theme of the exhibition is the diversity of Canadian indigenous cultures, from the Northwest Coast to the Eastern Woodlands, by way of the Arctic regions.

At the end of June, the Antwerp Ethnographic Museum will close its doors until spring 2010, at which time its collection will have been moved to a new location at the Museum aan de Stroom (Museum on the Water). This new multidisciplinary cultural space will endeavor to emphasize the influence of the river and maritime routes on Antwerp's artistic and cultural patrimony. The crown jewels of the Janssen Collection of pre-Columbian art, currently being shown at the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, will be exhibited in the new venue.

The Louis Senlecq Museum invites visitors to follow the path of Louis Gustave Binger, a humanist explorer that between 1887–1892 set out to learn about the indigenous peoples of the Niger River and the Gulf of Guinea. Accompanied by photographer Marcel Monnier, he put together what is now considered one of the first photographic archives of the people of Côte d'Ivoire. Thanks to several loans by the Musée du Quai Branly and by private collectors, this exhibition reveals the heart of Ivorian cultures, and provides insights into the colonial world at its beginnings. After its run at the Senlecq, the show will be featured at several French museums and libraries, and will finish its tour in 2010 at the Musée National des Civilizations Ivoiriennes in Abidjan.

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This exhibition showcases selections from the private collection of Donald Danforth Jr., who focused his collecting efforts on Northern and Southern Plains art, emphasizing the period from 1850–1890, when Native American lifeways were changed from a nomadic context to that of the reservation. His collection today contains more than 300 pieces. On display are moccasins, cradleboards, clothing, pipe bags, parfleches, and objects of both adornment and utility.

Taken from the perspective of the Dutch experience in Southeast Asia and Melanesia, this exhibition explores the effects of European influence on the indigenous cultures of these regions, as well as other aspects of those cultures and their arts. The core of the exhibition was formed by the Holland Museum's founder, Willard C. Wichers, and among the highlights are two sixty-five-foot-long Balinese temple paintings on cloth. Also on view are more than sixty works of art and artifacts, including weapons, puppets, batik, and tribal masks.

Vienna's Museum für Völkerkunde is presenting an exhibition that offers an overview of antique, classical, and tribal masking traditions in both European and non-European cultures. The content of the show is of exceptional cultural diversity and blends many traditions together, while documenting the objects in terms of their function, use, and original cultural contexts. This dialogue is further developed by the inclusion of objects from the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Carnival, dance, and funerary masks mingle with Egyptian Fayoum portraits and an impressive parade helmet mask made for Charles V at the end of the sixteenth century.

African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting features more than thirty-five works, most of which have never been seen in the United States, exploring the traditions of these two major culture areas. Over half of these comprise a remarkable group of masks and sculptures from West, Central, and East Africa, ranging from an Ife terracotta head to an iconic mask created by a Teke mastercarver. Among the Oceanic objects are figures, masks, and decorative arts from Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, highlights of which include a rare wood sculpture from Easter Island and a stunning female figure from the Micronesian island of Nukuoro.

Masked Festivals of Canton Bo, Southwest Ivory Coast features rare drawings, photographs, and masks from the Peabody Museum collection and explores the significance of masked spirit dancers, singers, and performers at festivals in eastern Liberia and western Ivory Coast. The exhibit examines how the men of Canton Bo assume different masked spirit roles, including male, female, young, old, singer, dancer, comic, judge, and adulterer.