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Seated Figure

Date: late 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 2003.8

Dance Mask

Date: early 20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1120

Prestige Stool: Female Caryatid

Buli Master, possibly Ngongo ya Chintu (Hemba, ca. 1810-1870)

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1979.290

Ceremonial Board (Malu)

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.713

Female Figure (Tetepeku)

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.819

Illuminated Gospel

Date: late 14th–early 15th century
Accession Number: 1998.66

House Post (Tomor)

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1995.65.2

Helmet Mask (Temes Mbalmbal)

Date: mid-20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1697

Seated Male Figure with Lance

Date: 16th-20th century
Accession Number: 1983.600a, b

Snuff Tray

Date: 4th–10th century
Accession Number: 1989.389

Mirror-Bearer

Date: 6th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1063

Mask (Mukudj)

Date: 19th–20th century
Accession Number: 2000.177

Shield (Grere'o [?])

Date: early to mid-19th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.730

House Post Figure

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1440

Skull Hook (Agiba)

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.796

Eharo Mask

Date: early 20th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.725

House Post Figure (Amo)

Date: ca. 1800
Accession Number: 1979.206.1508

Funerary Mask

Date: 10th–11th century
Accession Number: 1974.271.35

"Smiling" Figure

Date: 7th–8th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1211

Female Figure

Zlan of Belewale

Date: before 1960
Accession Number: 1978.412.499

Deity Figure (Zemí)

Date: ca.1000
Accession Number: 1979.206.380

Tunic

Date: 7th–9th century
Accession Number: 1987.394.706

Ritual Board (Wenena gerua)

Date: ca. 1950
Accession Number: 1978.412.741

Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)

Date: 19th–mid-20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.127

Standing Figure

Date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Accession Number: 1995.427

Drum

Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1978.412.111

Lidded Saltcellar

Date: 15th–16th century
Accession Number: 1991.435a, b

Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.323

Mask

Date: 10th–6th century BCE
Accession Number: 1977.187.33

Female Figure

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.1470

Lime Container (Poporo)

Date: 1st–7th century
Accession Number: 1991.419.22

Between Earth and Heaven

El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born Anyako, 1944)

Date: 2006
Accession Number: 2007.96

Pair of Figures

Date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE
Accession Number: 1978.412.156

Ancestor Figure

Date: 19th century or earlier
Accession Number: 1979.206.1561

Mask

Date: late 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1978.412.1518

Plaque: Warrior and Attendants

Date: 16th–17th century
Accession Number: 1990.332

Mask: Female Figure (Karan-wemba)

Date: 19th–20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.84

Figure

Date: 9th–11th century (?)
Accession Number: 1976.194

Border Fragment

Date: 1st–2nd century
Accession Number: 1994.35.120

Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble: Head (The Great Bieri)

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.229

Seated Figure

Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 1981.218

Water Deity (Chalchiuhtlcue)

Date: 15th–early 16th century
Accession Number: 00.5.72

Veranda Post: Equestrian Figure and Female Caryatid

Olowe of Ise (Nigerian, born Ise, about 1873–1938)

Date: before 1938
Accession Number: 1996.558

Power Figure: Male (Nkisi)

Date: 19th–20th century
Accession Number: 1978.409

Seated Figure Bottle

Date: 2nd–5th century
Accession Number: 82.1.30

Frog Pendant

Date: 11th–16th century
Accession Number: 1991.419.1

"Baby" Figure

Date: 12th–9th century BCE
Accession Number: 1979.206.1134

Power Figure (Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka)

Date: mid to late 19th century
Accession Number: 2008.30

Processional Cross

Ezra

Date: ca. 1500
Accession Number: 1999.103

Ritual Vessel: Horse with Figures (Aduno Koro)

Date: 16th–19th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.255