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African artworks
afrrican artworks
Term | Definition |
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Nail Figure | Kongo Culture |
Nail Figure | 1875/1900 |
Nail Figure | Wood with screws, nails blades, cowrie shell, and other materials |
Stone Age Petroglyphs | Nambia |
Stone Age Petroglyphs | c. 4000 BCE - c.1 CE |
Lydenburg Head | South Africa |
Lydenburg Head | c. 500 CE |
Lydenburg Head | Inverted vessel |
Great Zimbabwe | Shona |
Great Zimbabwe | Masvingo Province |
Great Zimbabwe | 11th - 15th centuries |
Kissar | Nubia, Sudan |
Kissar | Late 19th century |
Kissar | Lyre |
Kissar | Wood, skin, glass beads, cowrie shells, coins, gut, and iron |
The great Bieri head | sculptural element from a reliquary ensemble |
The great Bieri head | Fang people, Betsie group, Gabon |
The great Bieri head | 19th - early 20th centuries |
The great Bieri head | Wood, metal, palm oil |
Pwo mask | Chokwe people, Angola |
Pwo mask | 19th - early 20th centuries |
Pwo mask | Wood, fiber, brass, pigment |
Pwo mask | female |
Finial of a Royal Scepter | Yombe People |
Finial of a Royal Scepter | Kongo or Zaire |
Finial of a Royal Scepter | 19th century |
Finial of a Royal Scepter | Elephant ivory |
Nok Sculpture | Nigeria |
Nok Sculpture | 1st century BCE - 1st Century CE |
Nok Sculpture | Terracotta |
Brass Head | Yoruba |
Brass Head | Ife, Nigeria |
Brass Head | 12th - 14th centuries |
Brass Head | Brass |
Plaque | Edo peoples |
Plaque | Nigeria, Benin Kingdom Court style |
Plaque | mi 16th - 17th centuries |
Plaque | Copper Alloy |
Kente Cloth | Ashanti |
Kente Cloth | Ghana |
Kente Cloth | 20th century |
Felix in Exile | William Kentridge |
Felix in Exile | South Africa |
Felix in Exile | 1993-94 |
Felix in Exile | Color video, transferred from 35 mm film |
Spirit of Sisterhood | Aida Muluneh |
Spirit of Sisterhood | Ethiopia |
Spirit of Sisterhood | 2000 |
Spirit of Sisterhood | Cibachrome Print |
Coffin | Workshop of Paa Willie |
Coffin | Ghana |
Coffin | 2000 |
Coffin | wood, gold metal ornament, "RIP 2000", white silk, glass |
Between Earth and Heaven | El Anatsui |
Between Earth and Heaven | Ghana, based in Nigeria |
Between Earth and Heaven | 2006 |
Between Earth and Heaven | Aluminum, copper Wire |