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Bearded elongated figure holding a bow and arrow. A container hangs from both his hip and back. Origin Burkina Faso.
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Carved wooden mask with female features. Origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
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Carved wooden mask with female features. Origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
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Ritual staff of office; wood is divided into intricately carved and decorated sections.
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Elongated female figure wearing a headdress and holding a long tool and a container. Origin Burkina Faso.
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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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Three charms to ward off evil in the form of reptilian amulets. Origin Togo.
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Red, black, and greenish-brown stone ashtray, made for tourists, origin West Africa.
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Arrows, origin Togo.
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Batik depicting a woman holding a basket and a man holding a gourd. Signed "NIKE" lower left side. Origin Nigeria.
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Batik depicting a woman holding a basket with a bird on top. Signed "NIKE" on lower right side. Origin Nigeria.
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Porcupine quill, multicolored black/ivory; origin East Africa.
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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.
