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A work made of raffia, plain weaves; pieced; appliqúed with plain weaves in pearl stitches; embroidered in pearl stitches; edged with bands of cotton, warp-stripe warp-float faced twill weave; cotton, plain weave; pieced and hemmed in slip and pearl stitches; and cotton, warp-float faced alternating float weave; joined with raffia in pearl and twisted insertion stitches.

Ceremonial Skirt, Late 19th century

Kuba

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Shakeia, 2013

Dawoud Bey

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Spatial poem reply 2, 2015

Kemang Wa Lehulere

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (New York, Harlem), from the series "A Man Becomes Invisible" (1952), 1952

Gordon Parks

A work made of charcoal with smudging, erasing and red crayon on ivory wove paper.

Drawing from "Zeno Writing" (landscape, text fragments), 2002

William Kentridge

A work made of charcoal, pastel, ink, graphite, pen and inks and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

Sketchbook, 1937–42

Charles White

A work made of graphite and black colored pencil with brush and orange and yellow inks and watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor on wove graph paper.

African Fractals, from Human_3.0 Reading List, 2015

Cauleen Smith

A work made of acrylic on cream wove paper with commercially printed text.

Beach of Silenus, 1964

Bob Thompson

A work made of wood, silver, copper, amber, silk, and carnelian.

Prayer-String Necklace, Early 20th century

Tekna

A work made of cotton, eight narrow strips of plain weave; pieced; resist painted and printed.

Married Woman's Bògòlanfini Wrapper, 1988

Jege Coulibaly

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Robe, from the series "Born Hip", 1962

Billy Abernathy

Woman's Apron

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Untitled (the Great Society) I, 2006

Rodney McMillian

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Wall of Respect), 1967-71

Bob Crawford

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Matseleng Kgoaripe, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2011, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Man on the Corner of Lenox Avenue & 125th Street, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Preacher Man, 2015

Rodney McMillian

Watercolor painting of a bright-pink bedroom with skewed perspective and flattened forms. Placed diagonally is a bed with a yellow bedframe and red striped sheets. In the center background is a blue dresser with an oval mirror, and on the right is a doorway through we can see a black-skinned figure holding something, possibly a baby.

Virginia Interior, 1942

Jacob Lawrence

Human figures in many colors wearing hats stand with their heads down near a yellow figure upside down, entwined with another figure, on a purple horse. The yellow figure is the only one in the work with facial features.

The Procession, 1963

Bob Thompson

Color print with an ombre sky that fades from bright blue at the top to pale blue at the bottom. At the bottom of the frame, a youthful black figure wearing a cloak looks upward. A large conch shell in vibrant pink floats above the person's head.

Love Letter III, 1977

Charles White

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