African History Gallery

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Throughout the decades that Beverly Buchanan lived and worked in the American Southeast, she gathere
Sara Forbes Bonetta. A child (possibly princess) of the Egbado (now Yewa) tribe of the Yoruba people
How did coins from Medieval East Africa end up in Australia?During World War II in the Wessel Island
Tennis player Arthur Ashe, the day after becoming the first African-American man towin a Grand Slam
Africa | South Africa | LeadersAndrew Mlangeni (on left, with advocate George Bizos), the last survi
@leysksol__ I hate that I have to bring this up. This is our history. Not the history we learned in
Jewellery of Amanishakheto from her pyramid at MeroeAmanishakheto was a Kandake of Kush. She seems t
New York City Street Style, 1969.
gunsandposes:Up top, that’s Pearl Harbor hero Doris “Dorie” Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24,
Ethiopian shield, made of leather, velvet, gold leaf, silver, and copper.  Now in the Peabody Museum
collective-history:The Rhodes Colossus, an 1892 caricature of Cecil Rhodes after announcing plans fo
Mask of the We culture,Côte d'Ivoire. Artist unknown; 20th century. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. Phot
The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is
Snake pendant of the Ebrié people, Lagunes region, southernCôte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; 19th cent
De Nyew Testament, 2005, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and CultureSize: H
Carved wooden figure of a mother and child (phemba), of the Yombe people, Kongo Central Province, De
Sculpture of the Makonde people, Tanzania, depicting a seated colonial policeman.  Artist unknown; 2
From 1625 to 1900, 12 kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey. (Yo
Chi Wara headdress of the Bamana people, Mali.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the Huntington
Tribal sword (hilt missing) from Cameroon, early 20th century.from Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Gold mask of the Akan people, Côte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; ca. 1890-1910.  Now in theMusée du qua
percussion pistol from the Bambara people of Mali, mid 19th century.from Czerny’s Internationa
African Atlantis and the Wonders of the Ife SculpturesAround the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
A sad part of our history; A Charleston, South Carolina newspaper advertisement for African slaves,
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