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: Headless Statuette of a Scribe

The Egyptians valued literacy even more than physical strength or military prowess. Individuals wishing to immortalize their wisdom and educ...

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: Figure of Mother and Child (Phemba)

    Such sculptures of a mother nursing her child may have been used to increase or aid fertility. The mirror-covered cavities in the infant&rsq...

     

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    Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)Fragment of a HeadFigure of a Monkey, possibly for MbraCeremonial Staff (Kibango)Ceremonial Staff (Kibango)Mask (Nganga Diphombe)Kabwelulu Gourd FigurePower Figure (Nkishi)Likishi Dance Costume LeggingsMother with Child (Lupingu lwa Cibola)Pendant CrossPendant CrossPendant CrossGelede MaskMudpack Coiffure (Emedot)Palm Wine Cup (Mbwoongntey)
     
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