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)




Hand cross
Ethiopian Orthodox style, Ethiopia
c. 16th to 17th century
Wood
Gift from Merton D. Simpson in memory of Alan Brandt, 2002-21-1

Battle of Adwa
Unidentified artist, Ethiopia
c. 1968
Oil on canvas
Gift of Joseph and Patricia Brumit, 2004-7-60

Emperor Haile Selassie
Aläqa Gabra Selasse
c. early 1900s­1986, Ethiopia
c. 1973
Tempera on cardboard
Gift of an anonymous donor in memory of Louis Gilden, 2006-3-9
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)