West African Art

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Gold pendant, believed to come from the Baule (Baoulé) people of the Guinea Coast, present-day Côte

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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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Wooden royal tukah mask of the Bamendou region/village grouping, in the northwestern part of present

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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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Dance crest with two faces (one red, one white) used in the ekeleke performance by the Igbo people,

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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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Wood and metal mask (nyanga) of the Bobo people, Burkina Faso.  Artist unknown; early 19th century. 

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Wooden female (eyema byeri) statuette of the Fang Ntumu people, Gabon.  Artist unknown; 19th century

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Epa mask of the Yoruba people, Nigeria.  Now in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgi

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Wooden funerary sculpture for resting the neck, of the Dogon people, Mali.  Artist unknown; caa. 890

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Ode-lay mask (wood, paint, plastic, and metal) of the Temne people, Sierra Leone.  Artist unknown; m

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Gelede headdress of the Yoruba people, from the town of Igbesa in the Awori region of present-day Ni

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Wooden helmet mask (ndoli jowei) used in Sande Society gatherings of the Mende people, present-day S

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Water spirit head crest (pipligbo) of the Kalabari Ijo people, the Niger River Delta, Nigeria.  Arti

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Beaded crown (ade) of the Yoruba chieftain Onijagbo Obasoro Alowolodu, Ogoga of Ikere (1890-1928), p

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Gelede mask with a bird on the head, from the Yoruba people, Nigeria.  Artist unknown; late 19th or

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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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Wooden tukah royal mask of the Bamileke people, Cameroon.  Artist unknown; 1st half of 19th century.

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Wooden helmet-mask of the Igala people, Benue River Valley, Nigeria.  Artist unknown; early 20th cen

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Maiden spirit mask (agbogho mmuo) of the Igbo people, Nigeria.  Carved from wood and decorated with

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