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A work made of wood, animal fur (contemporary facsimile based on period examples), and twine.

Ritual Head, Mid–/late 19th century

Hemba

A work made of 6 panels joined of factory-produced cotton, plain weave self-patterned by warp and weft floats; embroidered with silk floss and viscose rayon threads in chain stitches.

Adinkra Wrapper, Early 20th century (after 1904)

Asante

A work made of wool and silk, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "persian" ("sehna") knots; edged with cotton, and wool weft-faced warp-ribbed plain weave.

Carpet, 1675/1725

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Mother and Child, 1952

John Wilson

A work made of ceramic.

Funerary Urn, 19th/early 20th century

Kongo

A work made of wood and pigment.

Dance Staff (Oshe Sango), Early 20th century

Yoruba

Pendant (Ram Head)

Pendant (Ram Head), Late 19th/mid–20th century

Baule

A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of bronze.

Goldweight Depicting a Monkey, Early/mid–20th century

Akan-speaking peoples

A work made of wood and iron.

Figural Staff, Probably late 19th century

Baule

A work made of calabash.

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

Asante

A work made of wood and iron.

Ceremonial Weapon, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Baule

Hair Comb

Hair Comb, Early 20th century

A work made of terracotta and slip.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Bwa

Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts, 1972

Alma Thomas

A work made of lithographic crayon, with scraping and smudging, on cream wove paper.

Breadwinner (War), 1942

John Wilson

A work made of plant fibers, feathers, and glass and clamshell beads.

Wedding Basket, c. 1895

Pomo

A work made of blackened terracotta.

Container, Possibly for Use as an Oil Lamp, Early/mid–20th century

Nsei

A woman with dark brown skin and an afro reclines on a patterned yellow couch, her legs crossed in the foreground. She wears hoop earrings, a loose purple top, and yellow eyeshadow.

Can't We Just Sit Down and Talk it Over?, 2006–07

Mickalene Thomas

A work made of glass beads, cloth, iron, and thread.

Coronet (Orikògbòfóor Onigegemerin), Mid–20th century

Yoruba

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