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Ivory salt cellar of the Edo people, Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria), in the Bini-Portugue

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Male figure (wood, plant fiber, and glass beads) from the Niembo chiefdom of the Hemba peoples, pres

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Male figure (wood and glass) of the Bembe people, Republic of the Congo.  The figure wears a Europea

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Mask (wood, pigment, and metal) of the Idoma people, Nigeria, depicting ritual scarification.  Artis

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Wooden female mask with attached bells, of the Wee peoples, Côte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; late 19t

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Terracotta vessel of the Akan peoples, Ghana, showing a female figure on a gourd with musical instru

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Carved ivory bracelet of the Yoruba people, of the Owo region of present-day Nigeria, depicting hunc

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Painted wooden mask of the Tsogo peoples, of the Ogowe River region in present-day Gabon.  Artist un

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Double ceramic vessel of the Kabyle peoples of northeastern Algeria.  Artist unknown; 19th century.

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Mask, believed to come from the Kom peoples of Cameroon.  Artist unknown; late 19th or early 20th ce

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National Museum of African Art, Arts and Industries Building Beyond, Smithsonian Institution, Washin

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Throwback Thursday to a few weeks ago when “Wind Sculpture VII” was dazzling outside our National Mu

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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa is at

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Gavin Jantjes (b. 1948, South Africa), Untitled (1989–90), acrylic on canvas

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