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Description:
Ritual staff of office; wood is divided into intricately carved and decorated sections.
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Carving of a human and an animal; the shapes are intertwined and a human face is part of the animal figure; origin South Kenya; engraved lettering on front reads "MR KASUMILI IOMASIL FROM_MbEGAM LD bAGAMOYO MAKOMDE."
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Two shallow heart-shaped soapstone ashtrays with flat bases and nearly identical sizes.
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Ivory hairpin, curved with a pointed tip on one end and the other a carved head of a woman; hair is that of a Mangbetu woman, decoration on torso.
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Stone candlestick made for hotels; origin eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
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Silver Coptic cross with looped copper piece soddered on; origin Ethiopia.
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Arrows with metal points and wooden shafts used for hunting large game; origin Mbuti people of the Ituri rainforest.
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Bundle of wooden arrows wrapped with a piece of raffia, seven with metal tips, fourteen in all; end of one is notched with traces of poison; origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Mbuti people.
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A black wooden fertility doll carried by expectant mothers; origin Ashanti people of Ghana.
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Red, black, and greenish-brown stone ashtray, made for tourists, origin West Africa.
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Porcupine quill, multicolored black/ivory; origin East Africa.
Date:
1950 and 1979
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Small wooden object, origin Tutsi people. Collector Colin Turnbull labeled the object "a parihuana holder."
Date:
1950 and 1979
Description:
Coiled grass basket with conical lid; lid tightly woven with raffia, top twelve rows dyed black; bottom has black geometric pattern, rest of basket is natural; possible origin is Central Africa.
Date:
1950 and 1989
Description:
Zande rubbing article, functions as an oracle.
Date:
1950 and 1979
Description:
Tin of 82 beans used to play nuchuba; tin reads "PLAYER NO.3 EXTRA QUALITY"; origin Tutsi people (Central Africa).
Date:
1950 and 1979
Description:
Small coiled basket and lid, tightly woven with a smooth finish; red exterior, gold interior; origin Ituri rainforest.
Date:
1950 and 1979
Description:
Metal kingele pallet bell used by dancers in the nkumbi initiation ritual of the Mbo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1950 and 1979
Description:
Toy garden hoe used by Mbo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1950
Description:
Brass anklet with six cowry shells embedded in clay and a design etched on either side; origin Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1950
Description:
Fossilized elephant tooth from Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
