East African Art

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Burnished pottery vessel resembling a gourd (ensumbi), made by the guilds of Toro potters for the Ga

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Shield of a Masai warrior.  Now in the American Museum of Natural History, NYC.

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Ethiopian manuscript of the Book on the Life and Miracles of Saint Gabra Manfas Quedus.  Artist unkn

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Ethiopian hand figure with cross (carved wood).  Artist unknown; 18th century.  Now in the Walters A

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Ethiopian triptych depicting the Madonna and Child flanked by saints.  Artist unknown; reign of Iyas

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Ethiopian shield, made of leather, velvet, gold leaf, silver, and copper.  Now in the Peabody Museum

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Sculpture of the Makonde people, Tanzania, depicting a seated colonial policeman.  Artist unknown; 2

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Headdress of the Bravanese (Barawani) people, Somalia, worn by a dancer to represent the ancestral D

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Painted jar depicting an animal procession, from the Semna South Fort, Semna, Nubia (present-day Sud

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Female figure (mwana hiti) of the Doe people, Tanzania.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the E

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Carved wooden comb from Madagascar.  Now in the Musée des arts africains, océaniens et amérindiens à

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Pair of wooden sandals with incised geometric designs, thought to have belonged to Fumo Omari, sulta

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Carved zoomorphic headrest of the Tsonga people, South Africa or Mozambique.  Artist unknown; 19th c

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Sculpture of a kneeling mother holding her child, from the Makonde people of southeastern Tanzania a

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where do we go that we know of (toendepi kwatinoziva), 2014Screen print on paper39 2/5 × 27 3/5 Virg

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Virginia ChihotaZimbabwean b. 1983Kumira Mutariro (Waitining in faith), 2017 Tiwani Contemporary Art

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