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)




Female figure
Baule peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
Late 19th to early 20th century
Wood, gold leaf, glass beads, cloth
Museum purchase, 2001-9-1

Fly whisk
Baule peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
Early to mid-20th century
Wood, horse hair, gold leaf, cloth
Gift of Brian and Diane Leyden, 2001-15-1

Portrait of a woman
Ibrahima Sall
b. 1939, Senegal
After 1967
Paint on glass
Gift of the Wil and Irene Petty Collection, 2008-5-6


Pendant (akrafokonmu)
Asante peoples, Ghana
Late 19th to early 20th century
Gold alloy, plant fiber
Museum purchase, 2008-3-1

Ornament
Soninke peoples, Mauritania
Late 19th to early 20th century
Gold alloy
Gift of the Brigitta and Roy Mitchell Collection, 2010-10-5
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)