Carl Arriens was a German painter who took part in the German Inner-Africa Research Expeditions led by Leo Frobenius, the famous German ethnologist, between 1910 and 1914. Arriens produced a large corpus of several hundred paintings of the peoples and places he visited, creating an invaluable body of ethnographic and anthropological data.
The selection presented here depicts mostly the people of Bida and Mokwa in the Nupe country, the Tiv, Fulbe, and Chamba, but also Yoruba, Hausa, Kanuri and Goemai (Ankwe).
