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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

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 with oil.

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

Fang

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

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

Ashiru

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

Container for Gold Dust, Snuff, or Tobacco (Adakawa)

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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