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A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight Depicting Entwined Catfish, 18th/early 20th century

Asante

A sepia-toned still from a video work. A tall African American man dressed in a trench coat, a hat, and sneakers kicks a metal bucket down a street at night. A white car passes by and streetlamps illuminate the scene.

Phat Free, 1995/99

David Hammons

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Mossi

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Figure of a Seated Chieftain, 100 BCE–250 CE

Colima

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Covered Vessel with the Principal Bird and Peccary Heads, 200–300 CE

Maya

A work made of glass, cloth, and string.

Royal Cap (Orikogbofo), 20th century

Yoruba

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Kurumba

A work made of gelatin silver print, from "faces & phases".

Tumi Nkopane, KwaThema, Johannesburg, 2013, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of color lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Come Sunday, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints, 1975

Romare Howard Bearden

A work made of graphite, with smudging and touches of white heightening, on tan wove paper, mounted to wood pulp laminate board.

Angel in the Morning, c. 1968

Murry DePillars

A work made of cloth, fiber, wool, and pigment.

Prestige Hat, Early 20th century

Bamileke

A vividly colored self-portrait in oil paint by the artist Beauford Delaney. Delaney depicts himself using bold, thick strokes of paint. His skin tone is polychromatic and contrasted by a mustard yellow background. He wears a blue shirt with accents of red and bright red hat.

Self-Portrait, 1944

Beauford Delaney

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Kurumba

Goldweight Depicting a Bird

Goldweight Depicting a Bird, 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of terracotta and pigment.

Vessel, Late 20th century

Nyakyusa

A work made of calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

Heart-Shaped Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of gelatin silver print.

ZaVa, Amsterdam, 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of 60 panels joined: cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed.

Display Cloth (Ndop), Early/mid–20th century (before 1937)

Bamum

A work made of ceramic with pigment.

Figure of a Standing Warrior, 650–800

Maya

A work made of grass fiber, fat, ochre, metal, and pigment.

Woman’s Hat (Isicholo), 20th century

Northern Nguni

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