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

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

Asante

A dark photograph of silhouettes dancing in a large room. There are two figures in motion at the center, while others congregate around the edges of the photograph’s frame.

Dancers, New York, 1956, printed 1982

Roy DeCarava

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

Woman’s Hat (Isicholo), 20th century

Northern Nguni

A work made of wool, rattan, and human hair.

Dance Hat, 20th century

Bamileke

A work made of brush and ink, acrylic and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

After Photography, 2003

Marlene Dumas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Women of the Ouled Nayls, 1867

Eugène Fromentin

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, 19th/mid–20th century

Kurumba

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ife Bronze, from the series "Hairstyles", 1972

J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

A work made of terracotta and pigment.

Pot Stand or Storage Vessel, Early/mid–20th century

Nupe

A work made of graphite, with erasing on cream wove paper.

Oak Bluffs, c. 1940

Hilda Wilkinson Brown

A work made of gelatin silver print.

4:00 a.m. Going to work, Wolwekraal–Marabastad bus: More than an hour and a half still to go, 1983

David Goldblatt

A work made of wood, pigment, and raffia.

Female Face Mask (Mbuya ya Mukhetu), Early/mid–20th century

Pende

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Man Lying Down, Subway Steps, 1965

Roy DeCarava

Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress. A white tassel hangs down above the child from a nearby curtain.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805

Joshua Johnson

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of inkjet print.

5:52 a.m. Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria, 2012, printed 2016

David Goldblatt

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sherry, Susan, Wendy, Laura, 1983

Roy DeCarava

A work made of iron.

Altar (Asen), 20th century

Fon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "The Garage" (1970/80), 1973

Mikki Ferrill

A work made of wood.

Miniature Mask, Early/mid–20th century

Dan

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