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1. Wooden mask

Description:: Carved wooden mask with female features. Origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

2. Wooden mask

Description:: Carved wooden mask with female features. Origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

3. Ritual stick

Description:: Ritual staff of office; wood is divided into intricately carved and decorated sections.

4. Ivory hair pin

Description:: 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.

5. Stone candlestick

Stone candlestick

Description:: Stone candlestick made for hotels; origin eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

6. Arrows

Description:: Arrows with metal points and wooden shafts used for hunting large game; origin Mbuti people of the Ituri rainforest.

7. Bundle of arrows

Bundle of arrows

Description:: 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.

8. Currency (Anklet)

Currency (Anklet)

Date:: 1890
Description:: Currency in the form of an anklet in high relief. Created with puddle mold method of casting. Origin Ekonda people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

9. Currency

Date:: 1890
Description:: Currency in the form of a heavy hemispherical bangle with beveled edges. Created with puddle mold method of casting. Origin Bambole, Bayele, and Balengo people of the Mbole region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

10. Currency

Date:: 1890
Description:: Currency in the form of a cross. Created with puddle mold method of casting. Origin Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).