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A work made of linen, embroidered.

Cover (Possibly for a Cushion), 19th/20th century

A work made of wood and pigment.

Helmet Mask (Banda or Kumbaduba), Mid–20th century

Baga

A work made of brass.

Container in the Form of a Leopard Head, Early 21st century

Edo

A work made of wood and beads.

Female Figure, Early/mid–20th century

Hehe

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight Depicting a Chameleon, Mid–19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of wood, kaolin, raffia, and nails.

Mask (Mukudj), Late 19th/early 20th century

Ashiru

A work made of wood with oil.

Half Figure (Nlo Byeri), Late 19th-early 20th century

Fang

Black bronze statue of African American man, shackles broken, sitting on tree stump.

The Freedman, Modeled 1862–63

John Quincy Adams Ward

A work made of wood.

Qur'an Stand (Marufaa), Early/mid–20th century

Swahili

A work made of wood and copper alloy.

Standing Male Figure (Mankishi), Late 19th/early 20th century

Songye

A work made of blackened terracotta.

Vessel for Serving Beer, 1940/1950

Northern Nguni

A work made of terracotta.

Water or Palm Wine Container (Iti or Udu), Mid–20th century

Igbo

Print in black ink of of a black male sprawled on his back with eyes open, a noose around his neck. The feet of several other men are visible near him at the top of the print.

And a Special Fear for My Loved Ones, from The Black Woman [formerly The Negro Woman] (published 1946-47), 1947, printed 1989

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of wood and pigment.

Headrest (Musawu), Late 19th to early 20th century

Yaka

A colorful wedding scene with a dark-skinned bride in red and a groom in black at center, their backs to the viewer. A minister cloaked in black stands between them, a dense wall of flowers or perhaps a floral pattern behind him. The group is flanked by two figures and panels of geometric stained glass.

The Wedding, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of wood and pigment.

Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun), Late 19th century

Yoruba

A work made of copper alloy.

Container for Gold Dust, Snuff, or Tobacco (Adakawa), Mid–/late 19th century

Akan-speaking peoples

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered in overcast and stem with running stitches cut to form pile; couching.

Panel, Early/mid–20th century

Kuba

A work made of wood.

Helmet Mask (Sowei), Early to mid-20th century

Sherbro

A work made of seventeen layers of cotton and rayon, plain weaves; some fulled; plain weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; and plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; printed; beaded with cotton and glass beads; embellished with brass buttons and cotton and polyester cords.

Wedding Cape (Isibheklane), Before 1930

Ngwane

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