African Sculpture Gallery

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Scepter. Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yombe peoples. 20th century. LACMA. 
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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
Wooden statuette of the Tsonga people, South Africa/Mozambique.  Artist unknown; 19th century.  Now
elegantlytasteless:Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overbo
“When this complex work was proposed for the collection a year after I arrived at the Museum, the cu
Ethiopian hand figure with cross (carved wood).  Artist unknown; 18th century.  Now in the Walters A
Male figure of the Nok culture of present-day northern Nigeria.  Artist unknown; ca. 195 BCE-205 CE.
Ivory salt cellar of the Edo people, Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria), in the Bini-Portugue
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Female figurine of the Luba (Baluba) people, south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Now in
Male figure (wood, plant fiber, and glass beads) from the Niembo chiefdom of the Hemba peoples, pres
Carved door (wood with iron staples) thought to be by the artist Sakiwa of the Nupe peoples, Nigeria
Standing bronze oba sculpture from Benin City in the Kingdom of Benin (present-day southern Nigeria)
Figure of a horn-blower, from the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Edo State, Nigeria.  Artist unknow
Yoruba twin statuettes covered with shells.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in theMusée du quai
Janus Mask. Africa, Nigeria, Cross River. Age unknown. LACMA. 
The Freedman, John Quincy Adams Ward, 1862-63
Female statuette of the Holoholo people, present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Artist unkno
Wooden palm wine cup (mbwoongntey) in the shape of a human head, of the Kuba people, Lulua or Kasai
Ndop portrait of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul of the Kuba people, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  
Pendant in the form of the head of an African (known as Ethiopian), 9th–8th century b.c., the Metrop
Having settled in Paris in 1960, Barbara Chase-Riboud was physically removed from the Black Arts Mov
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