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A work made of natural and synthetic fiber, wood, mirror and metal, shell, pieced from felted, knotted, and woven fabrics; printed and embroidered.

Masquerade Costume for Egungun (Paka), Late 19th/early 20th century

Yoruba

A work made of wood and metal.

Snuff Kerrie, Probably 19th century

Northern Nguni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Pastor Ledbetter, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Metropolitan Baptist Church" (1953), 1953

Gordon Parks

A work made of blue fountain pen, blue and black ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and pastel on paperboard.

Mt Calvalery Near Jeruselam in SO East Asia, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of pink, blue, black, and purple felt-tip pen, blue fountain pen, pastel, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Mt Mowbullan in Dividing Range near Brisbane Australia, 1970

Joseph Yoakum

A square painting in shades of black, two dark grays, and a deep red has the words, "BLACK," "AMERICA," and "RINGGOLD" written in eight even triangles that meet in the center.

Black Light Series #7: Ego Painting, 1969

Faith Ringgold

A work made of color woodblock on cream wove paper.

L'Abbatoire, 1950s

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of blue felt-tip pen, blue and black ballpoint pen, pastel, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Beulah Dudley 1st Negro Woman to Win Golff Record in year 1927., stamped 1970

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of black ballpoint pen and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Great White Throne Zion National Park Angles Landing Utah, 1970

Joseph Yoakum

Black-and-white photograph of a group of older black boys in hats and work clothes loosely lined up outside a doorway. Two at front pose playfully for the camera, one with a hand on his hips, looking to the side, the other with one hand under his face, looking straight ahead.

Negro Day Laborers, Marcella Plantation, Milestone, Mississippi Delta, 1939

Marion Post Wolcott

Black-and-white portrait photograph in a gold mat and frame of a white toddler in a dress with a striped skirt seated in the lap of a young black woman in a white head covering and floral dress.

Untitled (Portrait of Woman Holding a Child), 1850

A work made of blue ballpoint pen, blue fountain pen, colored pencil, and pastel on cream wove paper.

Mountains in Gaza Strip of Arabia and Egypt, 1964

Joseph Yoakum

Ndop Display Cloth

Ndop Display Cloth, Probably 1950s

Grassfields Kingdoms

A work made of wood.

Pilgrim's Staff (Oulle Sheikh Hussein), 20th century

Oromo

A work made of wood.

Pilgrim's Staff (Oulle Sheikh Hussein), 20th century

Oromo

Ndop Display Cloth

Ndop Display Cloth, Early 20th century

Bamum

A work made of wood and pokerwork.

Headrest (Isicamelo), 19th century

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Garvey, Prince Tovalou, and George Marke), 1924

James VanDerZee

A work made of soft ground etching and aquatint, with flat bite, from two cut plates in black and red on ivory wove paper.

L'Abbatoire VI, 1980

Eldzier Cortor

Coffee Thyme I

Coffee Thyme I, printed 1979, published 1981

Sam Gilliam

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