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- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of three cannons
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a bundle of three cannons.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.506
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yaka Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- A stylized human head with an elaborate coiffure, sitting atop a larger animal head with scarification marks below the eyes, tops a well-carved staff with angular handle and a zig-zag carved pattern below the handle. The eyes of both figures are set in shallow cavities and appear squinted or closed.
- Object Creation Date
- mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.19
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Hat
- Artist
- African, Mboom
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.62
- Medium and Support
- woven fiber
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mozambique, Yao
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.5
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.423
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Pipe bowl in the form of a male head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.184
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight with geometric pattern
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.142
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Igbo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.135
- Medium and Support
- wood with white, black and brown pigment and hair
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.441
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Necklace
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.25
- Medium and Support
- glass beads, shells, cloth, natural fibers and pigment
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Chi Wara Headdress
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Accession Number
- TC2006.17
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Female Ibeji Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1925-1940
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.118
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, glass beads, blue pigment
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.470
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Lula
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.138
- Medium and Support
- wood, cotton yarns, cowrie shells, paint
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Night Bird Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Burkina Faso, Bobo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1971
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.41
- Medium and Support
- wood and paint
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.245
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Gold weight in the shape of two crocodiles, crossed over one another, sharing a square-shaped stomach extending from the animals' heads to their pointed tails, with front and hind legs attached separately.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.512
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Knife (Power Emblem)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Burkina Faso, Mossi
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.48
- Medium and Support
- iron blade with wood handle
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Wedding Slippers (one of a pair)
- Artist
- African, Songhoi
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1946
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.210.1
- Medium and Support
- embroidered cotton
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Headband
- Artist
- African, Ivory Coast, Guro
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.99
- Medium and Support
- leather, cowrie shells, cloth, wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Bark cloth beater
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1875
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.1
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Apron
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.189
- Medium and Support
- cloth, beads and cowrie shells
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Whistle (nsiba)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Vili Peoples, Congo Republic
- Physical Description
- Two components make up this vertical whistle. The superstructure is a wooden carving of two birds that face each other, bellies touching, with a small round object between them, so that each is holding it in their beaks. The birds' talons clutch the base of the sculpture. The base has a hole in the center into which the antelope horn is pegged.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.181
- Medium and Support
- wood, antelope horn
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Spirit Mask
- Artist
- African, Nigeria, Ibo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.150
- Medium and Support
- wood, kaolin and cotton fabric
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Standing Female Figure as a Cup
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Wongo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.211
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamoun
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.343
- Medium and Support
- wood, human hair, and traces of camwood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of an axe
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of an axe, with a smooth handle attached to a rounded top with an inserted, triangular blade.
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.131
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Polycandelon for six oil lamps
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt
- Physical Description
- This bronze light fixture consists of a central circular celestial motif from which extend twelve arms in a radial pattern. Six of these arms, embellished with maltese crosses, end in omega-shaped terminals. These decorated arms alternate with six unadorned arms that terminate in rings designed to hold glass oil lamps. The entire disk is suspended from three bronze chains joined to a large hook.
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 500-599
- Accession Number
- 1965/2.54
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Ceramic Jewelry Molds (One of eighteen)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.211
- Medium and Support
- Pottery
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Knife (of set of knife and scabbard)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire)
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.54A
- Medium and Support
- Iron, copper, leather, string, wood and brass tacks
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight with a geometric pattern
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a square base, with a geometric pattern on top.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.394
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mud cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Senufo Peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.198
- Medium and Support
- woven cotton
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Ceramic Jewelry Molds (One of eighteen)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.227
- Medium and Support
- ceramic
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.376
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight in shape of a hen's foot
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a three forked branches with rounded tops, attached to a short stump.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.465
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask (Kifwebe)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba or Songye Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Wood carved face with geometric, pseudo-human facial features, grooved, bilaterial striations of surface, protruding, square pursed mouth and horizontal slit eyes with protruding eyebrows. Faint traces of white kaolin in grooves; a flat wooden crest extends from the nose along the curve of the forehead, terminating in feathered headdress; thick raffia fiber beard attached around face. mask shows much wear with nicks and scraptes on wood surface; feathered headdress and fiber beard are brittle.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.219
- Medium and Support
- wood, raffia, feathers, kaolin
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bambara
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.251
- Medium and Support
- iron
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Seated Maternity Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.302
- Medium and Support
- carved wood with blue, green and red pigments
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Miniature pipe bowl in shape of man's head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1925
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.213
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight in geometric shape
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a solid, undecorated square with a zigzag pattern along its edges and small, flat squares at the four corners.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.496
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Ikhoko Amulet Pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.197
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Horse and Rider
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.79
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.401
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Drinking horn
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.33
- Medium and Support
- cape buffalo horn and plant fibers
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.415
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Pot
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.158
- Medium and Support
- Pottery, brass holder, and fiber attachment
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Shallow Basket
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/2.56
- Medium and Support
- woven and dyed natural fibers
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ndebele peoples South Africa
- Physical Description
- A wooden staff, covered with beads in solid colors (red, blue, green and orange) outlined in black against a background of white beads, with a sideways M pattern in the middle of the shaft on either side. A stylized head of open beadwork tops the staff, followed by a tight-fitting necklace-like band with a clasp in orange and green and a white band, above solid red and blue rings.
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.46
- Medium and Support
- wood with beads
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)