African Art

Nubian pyramids at Nuri (Napata) and Meroë, 8th century BCE–3rd Century CE

Great Mosque of Djenné, first built in the 13th c./rebuilt in 1907, Mali, adobe.

Ethopian Illuminated Manuscript, (Gospel book open to John the Evangelist page

copying John 1:1-2), 16th century CE, paint and ink on parchment.

Top: Benin royal portraits from the 14th–18th century.

Bottom: Benin palace altar to Oba Eweka II, 1964.

Right: Benin Royal Portrait, Nigeria, 1550–1680, brass.

Dogon Seated Couple, 16th–19th century, wood and metal.

Ci-Wara crest masks, mid-19th–early 20th century CE,

wood, metal, brass tacks, and grasses.

Ci-Wara maskers

performing

Kente Cloth (of the adweaneasa type) and detail,

silk and cotton, early 20th century CE.

Mbuti painted bark cloths.

Kongo Nkisi Nkondi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century CE,

wood, iron, mixed media.

Kota Mbulu Ngulu figures, 19th-20th century CE, wood and hammered metal.