Collections: Arts of Africa

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Bocio

    Bochio are very powerful and very personal objects. An individual may make one for protection, to harm an enemy, or to ensure personal succe...

     

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    Standing Male Figure with Head Turned Left (Nkishi)Figure of a Monkey, possibly for MbraFragment of a HeadLikishi Dance Costume Shirt and Head Cover with Pwo MaskNdop Portrait of King Mishe miShyaang maMbulMaskReliquary Guardian Figure (Eyema-o-Byeri)Power Figure (Nkishi)Grave Marker (Tumba)Lipiko MaskMaskMwaash aMbooy MaskPower Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Water PipeFemale Figure with Medicinal Charge (Musinju)
     
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    "by the overriding power of the crocodile may all evils crawl away by the reputation of the beast of the river may all enemies on land be cast down with weakness by the strength of the crocodile tail may all ill spirits disperse like smoke in the air may all power and strength be ours; may all of ill-intent be as living flesh caught between the crocodile’s jaws "
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    "LUPINGU LUA LUIMPE I am a Lulua woman here a mediator between worlds: O make me fertile give me a child make my child live long and well so that you shall smile on me with such gifts as I ask of you I shall place one figure in my home and one I shall carry with me so that you shall allow these things I ask of you I shall be mindful each day; and I shall pour oil on the figure and wipe red clay and this I shall do everyday I am a Lulua woman here a mediator between worlds: O make me fertile give me a child make my child live long and well "
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    "Thanks to this mask with supporting comments, I've been able to identify the origins of one ours. They appear to be somewhat rare. Thanks again. Larry "
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