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Chokwe Mask.PNG
One of the stylish features of many of the Chokwe masks is an exaggerated bone structure and a broad mouth exemplified by this mask. The scarification in the center of the forehead is referred to as cingelyengelye. The Chokwe have had an artistic…

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This tear drop-shaped face mask is made of carved wood with a varied dark brown patina. The hair is a wrapped fiber braid and the ears have twisted copper earrings. Attached to the chin are four brass bells and an animal tooth. The back of the mask…

Yoruba People Fertility Altar Figure for orisha Oko (deity of the farm).PNG
This kneeling woman is wearing a necklace with a pendant, has coffee bean eyes and beautifully carved and elaborate hair, colored with bluing. There is a baby on her back. The figure is made of carved wood with a dark brown patina with blue pigment.…

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A cylindrical figure, like this example, has an upturned nose—one of its distinctive features. Objects of this type are thought to be used by the diviner in ceremonies of protection and fertility. Such a figure can be multifunctional in its capacity…

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This sculpture is beleived to be from the Igbo people of Nigeria. The Igbo live in the Niger-Benue River Valley in eastern central Nigeria. This environment is rich in agriculture. They have absorbed the influence of surrounding neighbors, and today…

Luba People Kiefwebe Society Ceremonial Mask.PNG
This unusual mask of a man’s face is made of carved wood with dark brown vegetable pigment and white koalin. His hair is done as a three-part coiffure. The mask is worn by a person acting as the tribe’s police or to frighten an enemy.

Fang People Ceremonial Dance Mask 1.PNG
Carved wood with dark brown vegetable pigment patina with white kaolin in the form of a rounded monkey’s face with minimal features and concave white face, round protruding eyes, elongated nose, diminutive mouth with 4 lines of scarification…

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This male figure with a rounded belly has rings around his neck, arms, waist and ankles and has an open hole in his back for inserting one-of-a-kind object is hand-made terra cotta with a dark brown vegetable patina and red camwood powder accents.

Dogon People Ceremonial Twin Totem Figure Snippet.PNG
This carved wood figure features two pairs of male and female figures seated one above the other. The male figures are on the right and both have beards.

M'Bole.PNG
From the M’Bole People of Zaire. Carved wood with variegated brown patina with aged white kaolin of a male figure with human body arching forward with elongated torso. White kaolin, arms extended outward from body and hands resting on upper thighs,…
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