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Borwu mask of the Vai people, present-day Liberia and Sierra Leone.  Artist unknown; 19th or 20th ce

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Drum carved in the shape of a female figure, of the Baga people, Guinea. Now in the Musée d'Arts afr

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Divination object (gbaule) of the We culture, Moyen-Cavally Region, Côte d’Ivoire.  Artist unknown;

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Buffalo mask of the Bwa people, Burkina Faso.  Artist unknown; ca. 1910-1950.  Now in the Cleveland

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Mask-headdress of the Baule people, Côte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the Indian

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Funerary headdress (tugunga) of the Bamum people, Cameroon.  Artist unknown; late 19th century.  Now

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Yoruba mask used in the Gelede festival.  Now in the Glenbow Museum, Calgary.

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Chi Wara headdress of the Bamana people, Mali.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the Huntington

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Mask of the Igbo people, Nigeria.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the Museu Afro Brasil, São

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Marionette head (?) of the Fang people, Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.  Artist unknown; 19t

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Female face mask (mblo) of the Baule people, Guinea Coast, Côte d’Ivoire.  Artist unknown; early- to

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Ivory armband from the Yoruba city-state of Owo (in present-day Ondo State, Nigeria).  Artist unknow

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Antelope headdress (n’gonzon koun), made from wood, beads, and metal, of the Bambara (Bamana) people

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Wood and brass mask (n’domo) of the Marka people, Burkina Faso.  Artist unknown; late 19th/early 20t

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Yoruba wooden sculpture of Queen Victoria, modeled after an official photograph taken in 1887.  Arti

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Metal mask of a male face, made by the Nigeria-born Yoruba artist Ali Amonikoyi.  Thought to have be

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Cowbell for an altar, from the Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria).  Artist unknown; 18th cent

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Yoruba-style helmet (copper alloy) depicting two birds of prey attacking a horse-headed snake.  From

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Mask of the Bassa people, Liberia.  Artist unknown; early 20th century.  Now in the Brooklyn Museum.

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Kpelie mask of the Senufo people, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire.  Now in the Children’s Muse

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