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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 work made of terracotta and pigment.

Vessel, Late 20th century

Nyakyusa

A work made of gelatin silver print.

ZaVa, Amsterdam, 2014

Zanele Muholi

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

Dance Hat (Juju), 20th century

Bamileke

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

Woman’s Hat (Isicholo), 20th century

Northern Nguni

A work made of 60 panels joined: cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed indigo.

Ndop Display Cloth, Early/mid–20th century (before 1937)

Bamum

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, 19th/mid–20th century

Kurumba

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 raffia, stripes of plain 1:1 gauze crossings and bands of plain weave and complementary weft plain weave self-patterned by complementary ground weft floats with ground weft and knotted main warp fringe.

Double Panel, Mid–/late 19th century

Mangbetu

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

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 wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "turkish" (ghiordes) knots.

Carpet, 1875–1900

A work made of oil on canvas.

Women of the Ouled Nayls, 1867

Eugène Fromentin

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ife Bronze, from the series "Hairstyles", 1972

J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

A work made of wood, pigment, and raffia.

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

Pende

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.

Invisible Woman I, from the series "Invisible Women", 2006

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of cotton, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton and rayon, plain weaves; embroidered with cotton in chain, detached chain, flat, and stem stitches; couching; borders of wool felt and cotton, plain weaves; backed with wool, plain weave.

Royal Pheasants, 1980

Fon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Man Lying Down, Subway Steps, 1965

Roy DeCarava

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

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