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A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Kurumba

A work made of color lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Come Sunday, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints, 1975

Romare Howard Bearden

A work made of jute, raffia, cowrie shells, and beads.

Pendant Belt (Nkody Mupaap), 19th century

Kuba

A work made of cotton thread, glass beads, and cowrie shells.

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A work made of brush and ink, acrylic and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

After Photography, 2003

Marlene Dumas

A work made of graphite, with smudging and touches of white heightening, on tan wove paper, mounted to wood pulp laminate board.

Angel in the Morning, c. 1968

Murry DePillars

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 cloth, fiber, wool, and pigment.

Prestige Hat, Early 20th century

Bamileke

A work made of terracotta and pigment.

Vessel, Late 20th century

Nyakyusa

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Kurumba

A work made of bronze.

Hippopotamus, 9th/mid–19th century

Cross River Region

Goldweight Depicting a Bird

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

Asante

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 gelatin silver print.

ZaVa, Amsterdam, 2014

Zanele Muholi

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

Woman’s Hat (Isicholo), 20th century

Northern Nguni

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

Dance Hat, 20th century

Bamileke

A work made of oil on canvas.

Women of the Ouled Nayls, 1867

Eugène Fromentin

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Container, 19th/mid–20th century

Kurumba

Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress. A white tassel hangs down above the child from a nearby curtain.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805

Joshua Johnson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ife Bronze, from the series "Hairstyles", 1972

J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

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