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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Title
- N'Tomo Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bamana
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.183
- Medium and Support
- wood, cowrie shells and red seeds
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Golddust Spoon
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.364
- Medium and Support
- hammered brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Royal Cap
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.76
- Medium and Support
- cotton cloth, wood, cowrie shells, and glass beads
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Goldweight with 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 with an "N" or "Z" form in the center and edged teeth along two sides.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.484
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Nkishi Mihasi Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- late 19th - early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.218
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Standing Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.271
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- 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
- 1997/1.392
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Royal Mask (Ngaady a Mwaash)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.162
- Medium and Support
- wood, polychrome, glass beads, cowrie shells, cotton cloth and string
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a crocodile
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a crocodile.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.508
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Seated Male Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yombe Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Small, carved male figure, seated atop a block, with legs crossed. The naturalism with which the expressive face is carved, the high crested coiffure (or chiefly cap?) and the progressive foreshortening of the body show the importance given to the head in Yombe aesthetics. The figure's eyes are mirrored glass, and the upper body, face and head are studded with brass tacks. A slight vertical crack can be seen at the figure's sternum.
- The Yombe figure was identified for UMMA by Allen Roberts and Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts. There was a discrepency regarding the dating of the piece: the export paperwork said "circa 1830", but the dealer's catalogue said early 19th c. When asked to help resolve the dating, Polly Nooter Roberts replied: "As for the Yombe figure, I can tell you with certainty that it is NOT early 20th century, and is definitely from the 19th century, if not earlier. I cannot confirm the 1830 date, but I would be more inclined to believe that than the early 20th century. So, I think you can confidently say 19th century, and perhaps you can go ahead and use the paperwork that says 1830 since that was supplied with it." See e-mail to Carole McNamara, 1/12/00.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1825-1875
- Accession Number
- 1999/1.94
- Medium and Support
- wood, brass tacks, glass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Sande Society Altar Piece
- Artist
- African, Sierra Leone, Mende
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.54
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Title
- Standing Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Chamba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.275
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- 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
- 1997/1.433
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.9
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Ibeji Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.191
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- 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
- 1997/1.458
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
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- Title
- Beaded Miniature Hat
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.164
- Medium and Support
- wool cloth, raffia, leather, glass beads and shells
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)