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Commemorative figure of a chief
Date: 19th century
Commemorative figure of a chief playing a sanza (thumb piano)
Date: 19th-20th century
Commemorative female figure
Pwo mask
Date: 19th–early 20th century
Date: ca. 1820
Date: Early 20th century
Commemorative figure
Buli Master, possibly Ngongo ya Chintu (Hemba, ca. 1810-1870)
Date: 19th–20th century
Head
Date: 12th–15th century
House of the Head Shrine (Ile Ori)
Date: 19th–20th centuryAccession Number: 1978.412.459a-c
Ndop figure: Mikó miMbúl or Mbop Mábíínc máMbúl
Date: ca. 1905
Ndop figure: Kot áNce or Kot áMbúl
Date: 19th-early 20th century
Ndop figure: Mbó Pelyeeng áNce
Date: ca. 1765
Ndop figure: Shyáám áMbúl áNgoong
Date: ca. 1630
Ndop figure: Mbó Mbóósh, Mishé miShyááng máMbúl, or Kot áNce
Date: ca. 1760-1780
Figure of a leopard chief: Chibwabwa Ilunga
Figure of a leopard chief
Figure of a leopard chief: Ilunga Mukulu
A chief of the Lunda
Date: Early 20th century (postmarked February 15,1910)
Demba-war, king of Cayor, and his two sons
King of Benin (Oba Ovonrramwen Nogbaisi, r. 1888–1914)
Date: ca. 1897
King Daudi
Date: 1909
Lawson, king of Anécho [Aného]
Date: 1933
King of Oyo [Adeyemi I Alowolodu, r. 1876-1905]
The oba of Benin [Eweka II, r. 1914-33]
His Highness Boua Kouassi, king of the Anyi
Date: ca. 1910–15
Chief Kétounou of Bonou Village
Date: Early 20th century (postmarked March 21, 1905)
Béhanzin, former king of Dahomey [r. 1889-94]
Date: 1906
Chief of royal blood
The king of Djoloff
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