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: Long Prayer Stick

The ikupasuy is a sacred object used for prayer. The worshipper dips the sharper end into rice wine (sake) or millet beer, and then sprinkle...

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: Three-Headed Figure (Sakimatwemtwe)

    This Lega figure is known as sakimatwemtwe, or “the man with many heads.” It would have been owned by a man who belonged to Kind...

     

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    Chiefs ChairFemale Figure with Medicinal Charge (Musinju)Water PipeFigure of Mother and Child (Phemba)Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)Mwaash aMbooy MaskMaskLipiko MaskGrave Marker (Tumba)Elephant Tusk Carved with Figures in ReliefPower Figure (Nkishi)Reliquary Guardian Figure (Eyema-o-Byeri)MaskNdop Portrait of King Mishe miShyaang maMbulKoma Ba MaskLikishi Dance Costume Shirt and Head Cover with Pwo Mask
     
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