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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
- 1997/1.420
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Royal Attendant Hat
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.163
- Medium and Support
- natural fiber and string
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight with tiered geometric pattern
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.140
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Nail figure (nkisi nkondi)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Vili Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almost shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.
- Century
- Late 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.192
- Medium and Support
- wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, fiber cord
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Igala
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.68
- Medium and Support
- wood, kaolin
- 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
- 1997/1.438
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Hairpin
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1925
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.36
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Mask
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.77
- Medium and Support
- wood with twine
- 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
- 1986/2.116
- 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
- 1997/1.466
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Scepter finial in the form of a man's head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kusu
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.356
- Medium and Support
- carved ivory
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Erinile Pot Lid
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.36
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- 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
- 1997/1.498
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Baton
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Nkutchu (Kuba)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1984
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.312
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Pomdo Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Sierra Leone, Benin
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1978
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.16
- Medium and Support
- soapstone
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Guinea Bissau, Baga
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.4
- Medium and Support
- wood with metal
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Thumb Piano/Plucked Idiophone (Kankobele)
- Artist
- African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1984
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.50
- Medium and Support
- wood and metal
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Pipe
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1987
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.347
- Medium and Support
- bronze, wood and cloth
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Tent Hanging
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Tuareg
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1984/1.258
- Medium and Support
- woven wool, camel hair and cotton
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Ancestral Shrine Figure (Male)
- Artist
- African, Nigeria, Ibo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.87
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Stool with traditional spider motif
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamoun
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.313
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a Queen's Fan
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a fan: a small, thin handle attached to a flat, spherical form, with a spiraling motif coming out of the center; the attachment of the handle to the circular shape is by way of a semi-circle, decorated with a spiraling motif flowing in the opposite direction.
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.129
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Flywhisk (mpiya, nsea, nfunka or nyese)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Dondo Peoples Congo Republic
- Physical Description
- Wood-carved flywhisk is shape of a woman. Her torso doubles as the whisk handle and is scarified with leaden inlay, which has been worn smooth due to extended use. A red cotton wrap marks the transition zone between the female’s torso and the buffalo hair whisk below. The whisk visually acts as a grass skirt completing the above figure’s body and dress.
- Century
- late 18th - early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.176
- Medium and Support
- wood, lead, cotton fiber, buffalo hair
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Spoon
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Liberian, Dan
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.30
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Bracelet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ethiopia
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.39
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Throwing Knife
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Brazzaville), Baya-Bumali
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.115
- Medium and Support
- metal blade with wood handle
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight?
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a spiral, possibly broken off at both ends.
- 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
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.366
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Door Panel, Secret Society Shrine
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Senufo Peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
- Century
- 19th or 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1800-1971
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.68
- Medium and Support
- carved wood and metal
- 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
- 1983/2.225
- Medium and Support
- Pottery
- 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
- 1997/1.377
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Goldweight in the shape of a human figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
- Physical Description
- Goldweight in the shape of a human figure, kneeling with buttocks on the heels and the hands at the side of the head, wearing elaborate headgear. Evidence of calcification.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.453
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Bwami Society Maskette
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Lega Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Concave, ovoid maskette with kaolin covering surface of surface of face. Minimal rendering of facial features: raised, tapered wood strip for nose; narrow, oviod, horizontal eyes; open, ovoid mouth with some striation around interior edge.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1975
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.151
- Medium and Support
- wood, kaolin
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Comb
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.327
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Architectural Element - Post
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- Possibly 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1900
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.169
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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 rectangle, bearing a geometric pattern with a zigzag line along one side and edged teeth along the other.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.491
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Staff
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Pende peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Physical Description
- Smooth staff, topped by a standing, slightly elongated, rectangular male figure with angular curves at the elbows and buttocks and the hands held in front of the stomach, just below the navel (the left arm is damaged). The big feet are carved as one piece, with small incisions for the individual toes.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1970
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.47
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Flywhisk with human face
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1986/2.93
- Medium and Support
- ivory, wood, copper wire, beads and animal skin with hair
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- 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
- 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
- 1997/1.412
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Skirt
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.142
- Medium and Support
- raffia cloth
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Hamba Mukishi Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Angola, Chokwe
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.206
- Medium and Support
- wood, string
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Ogun Ax (àáké or edùn Ogun)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- Carved ax handle is comprised of a kneeling male figure with rounded knob on top of his head, into which narrow end of triangular iron ax blade is embedded.
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1925-1975
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.73
- Medium and Support
- wood, iron
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Commemorative Head of an Oba of the Benin kingdom
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Benin
- Physical Description
- Cast brass head of a human. An opening at the top would have supported a carved elephant tusk. The heads wears elaborate "winged" headgear.
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.260
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- 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
- 1997/1.431
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)
- Title
- Royal Attendant Hat
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.71
- Medium and Support
- natural fiber and string
- relevance
- rank 5.35637
- Creation Place 1
- Africa (continent)