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1. Zither

Zither
Date:
1975-1999
Description:
Unstrung zither made by the Nyamwezi (Wanyamwezi) people of Tanzania.

2. Mask

Mask
Date:
1975-1999
Description:
Wooden East African mask with elongated face.

3. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture on wood backing; antelope in a clearing by a lake, outlined in bark; origin Uganda.

4. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture with wood backing; man canoeing with two huts and two palm trees; inscribed on back: 1970 MR. PHEN Phenehas S. Sali; origin Uganda.

5. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture on wood backing; three birds in front of water with two palm trees; inscribed on back: 1970 MR. PHENEHAS SSALI; origin Uganda.

6. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture with wood backing; tall woman with child carrying a basket on her head, man with a spear, and two huts; origin Uganda.

7. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture on wood backing; village with two women in the forefront, mountains in the background, framed in bark; origin Uganda.

8. Bark picture

Bark picture
Date:
1970
Description:
Bark picture on wood backing; man in a canoe near by a palm tree, two huts and a tree in background; origin Uganda.

10. Water buffalo

Water buffalo
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Black and brown water buffalo, head turned, origin Uganda.

11. Carved wooden figure

Carved wooden figure
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden figure with tether headdress of wire and a shield, made for tourists, origin Uganda.

12. Tuyere (kiln part)

Tuyere (kiln part)
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
End of a pottery tuyere used in a kiln; a tuyere is a tube through which air or oxygen is blown into a blast furnace, a ceramic blow tube to keep the furnace hot; origin Uganda.

13. Bellows

Bellows
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Bellows used with tuyere and kiln; top skin and stick are missing; origin Uganda.

14. Small wooden pot

Small wooden pot
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Small wooden pot, crudely done; origin Ik people of Uganda.

15. Harp

Harp
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Five string harp with a wooden body, animal skin across top, cord strings; very decorated with geometric pattern wood-burned into body, arm has giraffe-like spots; origin Uganda.

16. Wooden leopard carving

Wooden leopard carving
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden leopard with painted spots, origin Uganda.

18. Decorated wooden container

Decorated wooden container
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Wooden container with lid and two handles; lid has star and heart design, body has two leopards, origin Kenya.

19. Raffia basket

Raffia basket
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Yellow, violet, and natural coiled raffia basket with two handles; tray-shaped, repetitive geometric decorations in natural raffia within violet bands, edge is three rows of tightly woven material with handles on either side, plain underside; origin Uganda.

20. Raffia basket

Raffia basket
Date:
1965 and 1966
Description:
Yellow, violet, and natural coiled raffia basket; repetitive geometric decorations in natural raffia within violet bands, edge is three rows of tightly woven material, plain underside; origin Uganda.