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Doll; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji

Title: Doll
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.349
Medium and Support: carved wood with red, yellow and multi-colored beads, leather, wire and string
relevance: rank 3.12734

Doll; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji

Title: Doll
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.342
Medium and Support: carved wood, wire, multi-colored beads, leather, brass and metal coins
relevance: rank 3.12734

Reliquary figure (muzidi); Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe

Title: Reliquary figure (muzidi)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe
Physical Description: Cloth figure of a human, bound around human remains. The figure is in a seated position with arms outstretched. The torso and neck are cylindrical and elongated.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1890
Accession Number: 1985/1.187
Medium and Support: dyed woven cotton cloth, vegetable fiber, cane, wood pegs, human remains
relevance: rank 3.09542

Power figure (nkisi); Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Vili

Title: Power figure (nkisi)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Vili
Physical Description: Carved wooden figure of a human. The umbilicus protrudes and is concave, which would have held magical/medicinal substances. The figure is posed with crossed legs and one hand supprting the head. The face is detailed.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1850
Accession Number: 2005/1.183
Medium and Support: wood, woven cotton fiber, glass, split cane, elephant hair, metal, resin
relevance: rank 3.09542

Power Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Songye

Title: Power Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Songye
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Accession Number: 2005/1.229
Medium and Support: wood, civet and monkey skin, woven vegetable fiber, feathers, seed pods, animal
relevance: rank 3.09542

Scepter; African, Congo (Zaire), Songye

Title: Scepter
Artist: African, Congo (Zaire), Songye
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1930
Accession Number: 2005/1.230
Medium and Support: wood, animal skin, teeth, claws, seeds, beads, shells, vegetable fiber, metal
relevance: rank 3.09542

Inshallah (Prayers for Peace); Janice Gordon

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Title: Inshallah (Prayers for Peace)
Artist: Janice Gordon
Artist Life Dates: 20th century
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1991
Accession Number: 1992/2.35.1
Medium and Support: wood, antique book covers, 1600s lock mechanism, nails, clay pipes, stones, bone
relevance: rank 3.06414

Male Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe

Title: Male Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1870
Accession Number: 2005/1.196.2
Medium and Support: wood, tukula powder, fiber, dried fruit, metal hook, animal hair, shell, resin
relevance: rank 3.06414

Nkishi Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bekalebwe

Title: Nkishi Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bekalebwe
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1850
Accession Number: 2005/1.228
Medium and Support: wood, vegetable fiber, animal skin, glass, beads, seed pod, metal and wooden bel
relevance: rank 3.06414

Inshallah (Prayers for Peace); Janice Gordon

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Title: Inshallah (Prayers for Peace)
Artist: Janice Gordon
Artist Life Dates: 20th century
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1991
Accession Number: 1992/2.35.2
Medium and Support: wood, antique book covers, 1600s lock mechanism, nails, clay pipes, stones, bone
relevance: rank 3.06414

Female Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe

Title: Female Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Bembe
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1870
Accession Number: 2005/1.196.1
Medium and Support: wood, tukula powder, fiber, dried fruit, metal hook, animal hair, shell, resin
relevance: rank 3.06414

Kabwe Lugulu Gourd; African, Congo (Zaire), Songye

Title: Kabwe Lugulu Gourd
Artist: African, Congo (Zaire), Songye
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1930
Accession Number: 2005/1.232
Medium and Support: gourd, wood, animal skin (contents: vegetable, animal and mineral materials
relevance: rank 2.93860

Doll; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji

Title: Doll
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.341
Medium and Support: carved wood with white beads and multi-colored beads, leather and string
relevance: rank 2.93860

Sword and Sheath; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Ekonda

Title: Sword and Sheath
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Ekonda
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.92A&B
Medium and Support: iron blade with wood handle and sheath overlaid in brass and iron tacks
relevance: rank 2.93860

Ibeji Twin Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Ibeji Twin Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1945
Accession Number: 1987/2.79
Medium and Support: carved wood, original glass beads and nutshell beads, blued hair
relevance: rank 2.93860

Pel ambish; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Title: Pel ambish
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1885
Accession Number: 1988/2.1
Medium and Support: wood, animal hide, animal skin with fur and plant fibers
relevance: rank 2.93643

Curved Saber; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Binja

Title: Curved Saber
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Binja
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.84
Medium and Support: metal blade with brass wrapped wood handle with brass tacks
relevance: rank 2.93643

Ibeji Twin Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Ibeji Twin Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1945
Accession Number: 1987/2.80
Medium and Support: carved wood, glass beads, nutshell beads, copper nails and hair blueing
relevance: rank 2.93397

Knife with Sheath; Artist Unknown, African, Algeria, Berber?

Title: Knife with Sheath
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Algeria, Berber?
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.129A&B
Medium and Support: metal blade with wood handle trimmed in metal and fabric covered leather sheath
relevance: rank 2.93397

Le Boulevard; Auguste Louis Lepère

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Title: Le Boulevard
Artist: Auguste Louis Lepère
Physical Description: Paper size: lh 31cm & rh 31 1/10cm x tw 24 4/5cm & bw 24 1/2cm. Image size: h 17 1/5cm x tw 14 3/10cm & bw 13 4/5cm.
Artist Life Dates: 1849-1918
Accession Number: 2008/2.460
Medium and Support: wood engraving on cream laid japan tissue & tipped on cream paper
relevance: rank 2.93397

Mask (mwaash aMbooy); Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Title: Mask (mwaash aMbooy)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
Physical Description: Mask of a human figure. Embellished with presitious materials: dyed cloth, leopard skin, cowry shells, glass beads.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1985
Accession Number: 1985/1.143
Medium and Support: wood, paint, wool cloth, fiber cloth, cowrie shell, glass beads and leopa
relevance: rank 2.92462

Male Ibeji Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Male Ibeji Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1925-1940
Accession Number: 1986/2.120
Medium and Support: carved wood, blue coral beads, blue pigment
relevance: rank 2.92411

Ceremonial Knife; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Ceremonial Knife
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.64
Medium and Support: brass blade with brass ring wrapped wood handle
relevance: rank 2.92411

Page from a Printer's or Engraver's Album: Nine Caricatures, includgin works by Henri Daumer and Jean Théophile Gustave Lesestre; Honoré Victorin Daumier

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Title: Page from a Printer's or Engraver's Album: Nine Caricatures, includgin works by Henri Daumer and Jean Théophile Gustave Lesestre
Artist: Honoré Victorin Daumier
Physical Description: Nine charactures of men on the same sheet in various situations.
Artist Life Dates: 1808-1879
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2013/2.533
Medium and Support: various media on wood pulp paper mounted on thick paper
relevance: rank 2.92411

Saber with Sheath; African, Somalia

Title: Saber with Sheath
Artist: African, Somalia
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.127A&B
Medium and Support: metal blade and handle with metal covered wood sheath
relevance: rank 2.92411

Prestige Axe; Artist Unknown, African, Zimbabwe, Rotse

Title: Prestige Axe
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Zimbabwe, Rotse
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.110
Medium and Support: metal blade with bands of woven metal on wood handle
relevance: rank 2.92411

scripted; Ann Hamilton

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Title: scripted
Artist: Ann Hamilton
Physical Description: A long wooden box divided into two compartments, one small and one large. The small compartment contains an intricately worked gold thimble inscribed with a poem. The long compartment contains a silver thimble in which horse hairs have been threaded. The tuft of horse hair runs the length of the long compartment.
Artist Life Dates: born 1956
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1997
Accession Number: 1999/2.15
Medium and Support: gold thimble, silver thimble, horsehair, wood and glass
relevance: rank 2.92411

Mask and costume (bwoom); Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Title: Mask and costume (bwoom)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
Physical Description: A full-body costume and mask depicting a human figure.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1960
Accession Number: 1986/2.5A
Medium and Support: bark cloth, woven raffia, wood, copper, glass beads, kola nuts, kola, animal ski
relevance: rank 2.89681

Prestige Axe; Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bambara

Title: Prestige Axe
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bambara
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1998/1.100
Medium and Support: metal blade with wood handle with metal studs
relevance: rank 2.89593

Pike Decoy; Oscar Peterson

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Title: Pike Decoy
Artist: Oscar Peterson
Physical Description: Carved wooden decoy of a Pike fish; green along dorsal region with yellow underbelly, spots and flecks of yellow, white, and black.
Artist Life Dates: 1887 - 1951
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1928
Accession Number: 2002/1.216
Medium and Support: carved and painted wood and painted metal
relevance: rank 2.84128