Sculpture Africa Gallery

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The Freedman, John Quincy Adams Ward, 1862-63
Female statuette of the Holoholo people, present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Artist unkno
Mask by the Chokwe people of Central Africa
Mask of the Punu people, Gabon, late 19th-early 20th century
Bolo helmet mask of the Bobo people from Burkina Faso, 19-20th c.
Mask of the Punu People of Gabor
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.  
Masks of the Punu people, Gabon
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
“Alongside the Iggy Pop Life Class drawings, I have selected some objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s
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Carved wooden figure (nzambi) of the Holo people, present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo or An
Ancestor figure of blackened wood, of a female wearing an elaborate hairstyle, the wooden pegs on fa
elegantlytasteless:Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overbo
Sculpture of a kneeling mother holding her child, from the Makonde people of southeastern Tanzania a
Phembe (mother-and-child statue) of the Yombe people, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Artist unkn
Carved wooden statue of the Basonge people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, thought to represent a
Arches of the Royal Palace in Rabat, Morocco (by roba66).
Bound figure (terracotta) of the Jenne people of the inland Niger River delta, in present-day Mali. 
Power figure of the Songye people, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Now in the Indianapolis Museum
Hercules: The Geriatric Years.(Statue of a man in the garb of Hercules, i.e. lionskin tied around th
Drum with two faces, of the Shira-Panu people, Gabon.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the De
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