Introduction | Ousmane Sow | Technique and Object | Toussaint Louverture | Gold | Art at home | Womanhood | Artists | Nigerian modernism | Metals | Encoded meanings | Emblems of status | Ethiopia | Masks | Movement and gesture | How to Look at African Art (pdf) | Gallery hunt answers | African Mosaic collection | Collecting The World In African Art (NPR interview)




Tunic
Possibly Baba Adesina Family workshop
Yoruba peoples, Okuku region, Nigeria
Early 20th century
Cotton cloth, glass beads
Museum purchase, 2003-8-1

Staff
Chokwe-related peoples, Angola
Late 19th to mid-20th century
Wood
Gift of Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, 2009-1-1

Bottle
Bamum peoples, Grassfields region, Cameroon
Late 19th to early 20th century
Glass beads, gourd, wood, glass buttons
Museum purchase, 2000-14-1
Introduction | Ousmane Sow | Technique and Object | Toussaint Louverture | Gold | Art at home | Womanhood | Artists | Nigerian modernism | Metals | Encoded meanings | Emblems of status | Ethiopia | Masks | Movement and gesture | How to Look at African Art (pdf) | Gallery hunt answers | African Mosaic collection | Collecting The World In African Art (NPR interview)