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- Title
- Bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.109
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.68
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ngbaka peoples Democratic Republiic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Elaborately carved staff with angular forms along the shaft and topped with a figurine with a rounded head, heart-shaped face and two stylized arms resting on the stomach. A large Z-shaped handle is carved in the middle of the shaft, with a series of cubes and conical forms above and beneath it.
- Object Creation Date
- 1930-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.36
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Dark tan chevron stripes on a light tan background. The lighter tan is textured and is in a notched "V" pattern.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.81
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Knife for Circumcision
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba Hemba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.128
- Medium and Support
- metal blade with wood handle
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Palm Wine Drinking Horn
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Buffalo horn with concentric circles, geometric shapes and beadlike bands carved in relief follow the natural contours of the horn to its pointed tip. Has a local repair—a metal suture sewn at the mouth to stabilize a crack. Has cord pierced through tip.
- Century
- late 18th - early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1800-1850
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.209
- Medium and Support
- buffalo horn
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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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 12.73296
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- 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 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Tan squares with interlocking multiple sized triangles. The edges are tan and hemmed.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.90
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kongo peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.11
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Janus heads with elaborate headgear top a staff with a long, thin shaft and broader hourglass-shaped sections with a stylized human head in the middle of each one. The staff is covered with carved geometrical patterns of triangles, lozenges and lines, and ends in a metal-coiled tip at the bottom; it is heavy and has a shiny black patina.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1940
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.75
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- 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 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Dark brown rectangled with two rounded edges on one end. Interlocing triangles of tan and brown. Textured and braided designs.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.83
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Pestle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1880
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.221
- Medium and Support
- wood, china beads
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yaka Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.54
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Background is dark brown and over the top is a large interlocking square pattern with smaller squares. The insides of the larger squares are half dark brown and half tan.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.92
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kongo peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Short stick with a dark shiny patina, topped by a standing, male figure, wearing a European-style suit and brimmed hat, carrying a small box in his hands; followed by a standing female figure, unclothed, carrying a child on her back. Below are smaller figures, on either side respectively: a keeling figure, a turtle, and a bird; a brid, a turtle, a ram's horn and an ornamental motif, possibly a cross.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.64
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Nkishi Mihasi Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1890
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.212
- Medium and Support
- wood, beads, cotton cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Ikhoko Amulet Pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.199
- Medium and Support
- ivory
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Back in tan in color and textured with dark brown and lighter brown diamnd shapes. There are four sections and a long brown running stripe. All the edges are hemmed.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.85
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Katanga Cross Currency
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1925
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.277
- Medium and Support
- bronze, sand cast method
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Stool
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1900
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.293
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yaka Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.193
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Design Cloth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Interlocking diamonds in beige and off-white. Tan hemmed edges.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.94
- Medium and Support
- raffia and pile cloth
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Palm wine cup
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Cylindrical, wood carved cup with geometric motifs and linear, interlocking surface designs that cover the entire surface of the object.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.372
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- Title
- Animal Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba People Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.214
- Medium and Support
- wood, wicker, metal, antelope horn, fur, cord, seeds, nuts
- relevance
- rank 12.73296
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- 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 12.60026
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- Title
- Mask (idangani)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Sala Mpasu Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Mask is made entirely of blackish-brown dyed and molded raffia fiber; face has bulging forehead, deeo set narrow eyes, bulbous nose, and raffia “beard.” Top of head has cone-like crest of small fiber knots.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900-1983
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.184
- Medium and Support
- dyed fiber, raffia
- relevance
- rank 12.60026
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- Title
- Stirring paddle with head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Luba or Songye Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.156
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 12.60026
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- Title
- Mask (Kasangu)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Sala Mpasu Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Face mask made of wood, covered in white kaolin; face has round, bulging forehead, deep set narrow eyes, small round ears, fiber beard, open rectangular mouth and pointed teeth; basketry weave that held mask on the dancer’s head is visible at back and sides; raffia attachment on top of head frayed and missing.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1920-1960
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.44
- Medium and Support
- wood, raffia, kaolin and fiber
- relevance
- rank 12.60026