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A work made of 15 strips joined: cotton and viscose-rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and areas of discontinuous wefts forming openwork.

Woman's Wrapper (Aso Oke), Mid–20th century

Yoruba

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Man on the Corner of Lenox Avenue & 125th Street, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Preacher Man, 2015

Rodney McMillian

Black-and-white woodcut of an abstracted sunset. On the top is the sun rising from a straight horizon line, and on the bottom is an upside down sun-like form, connected to curving lines and dots.

Avey, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

Abstract painting in bright yellow, green, and orange. Undulating, visible brushstrokes give the surface a bright yet dusty and layered effect.

Untitled, 1965

Beauford Delaney

A work made of 21 strips joined: rayon, plain weaves with supplementary brocading wefts.

Kente Wrapper, 1900/50

Asante

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Freddie Dilworth, West Lake Street, Chicago, 1991

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1960

Malick Sidibé

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (I Pose with my Cap) [Sans titre (Je pose avec ma casquette)], c. 1965

Malick Sidibé

A work made of polychrome enamel on copper with metal mounts.

Box: Head of an African, c. 1750

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed 1) sisters i (l: nefertiti, r: devonia) 2) sisters ii (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter candace) 3) sisters iii (l: nefertiti's daughter maketaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley) 4) sisters iv (l: devonia's sister lorraine, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet) 5) ceremonial occasions i (l: devonia as matron of honor, r: nefertiti performing a lustration) 6) ceremonial occasions ii (l: devonia attending a wedding, r: nefertiti performing an aten ritual) 7) a mother's kiss (t: candace and devonia, b: nefertiti and daughter) 8) motherhood (l: nefertiti, r: devonia reading to candace and edward, jr.) 9) young princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter ankhesenpaaten, r: devonia's daughter candace) 10) wordly princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley) 11) crowned heads (l: nefertiti's husband akhenaten, r: devonia's husband edward) 12) young queens (l: nefertiti, aged 24, r: devonia, aged 24) 13) progress of queens (l: devonia, aged 35. r: nefertiti, aged 36) 14) cross-generational (l: nefertiti, the last image, r: devonia's daughter kimberley) 15) hero worship (l: devonia at 14 and lorraine at 3, r: devonia at 24 and lorraine at 13) 16) sibling rivalry (l: nefertiti, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet).

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

A work made of toned gelatin silver print with mixed media.

Mama Wata, 1995

Radcliffe Bailey

A work made of graphite and black colored pencil with brush and orange and yellow inks and watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor on wove graph paper.

African Fractals, from Human_3.0 Reading List, 2015

Cauleen Smith

Goldweight with a Geometric Pattern

Goldweight with a Geometric Pattern, 18th/19th century

Asante

A work made of 20 strips of cotton, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and bands of weft-faced weave on warp groupings of four warps; pieced.

Kente Wrapper, Mid–20th century

Ewe

A work made of limestone.

Church Lady, 1933–37

William Edmondson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Mikki Ferrill

A work made of african hardwood.

Tray (Chano), 1930s

A work made of pieced cotton, polyester, cellulose acetate, silk, rayon and acrylic, plain weaves; some with supplementary warps some forming cut voided pile; some self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; some printed; plain weave derived float weave; twill weaves, some printed; satin weave; and machine knitting; backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton threads.

"Housetop Half-Log Cabin" Quilt, c. 1975

Jessie T. Pettway

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Jeanette and Floyd Simpson Wedding, 1988

Kerry Coppin

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