SJSU Art History and Visual Culture
VRL Image Database

African Works:

 

African
Altar Figure of a King
c. 1700-1900, private collection

 

African
Altar Group with Oba Akenzua I
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar group with Oba Ewuakpe
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar Grouping with Lyoba
c. 1700-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Altar to the Hand, Ikegobo of an Ezomo
c. 1800-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Arm Cuff
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

African
The Bamana Territory

 

African
Baule Territory

 

African
Bonu Amuin Helmet Mask (Klolo)
1930, Abidjan Museum

 

African
Ceko Puppet (Yankadi)
c. 1930-1935, Indiana University Art Museum

 

African
Ceremonial Ada Sword
c. 1700-1800, British Museum, London

 

African
Commemorative Head of a Lyoba or Queen Mother
c. 1800-1900, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Commemorative Head of an Oba
c. 1500-1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Commemorative Head of an Oba
c. 1600-1800, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden

 

African
Commemorative Head of an Oba
c. 1500-1700, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

 

African
Conjuration Helmet Mask (reproduction) (Bonu Amuin)
1920, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia

 

African
Container in the form of a Palace Building
c. 1700-1800, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

 

African
Crucifix
c. 1600-1650, private collection

 

African
Crucifix
c. 1700-1900, private collection

 

African
Dance Shield
c. 1900-1950, private collection

   

African
The Dinya Head
c. 500 BCE - 200 CE, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos

 

African
Door (Anuan)
before 1950, Rietberg Museum, Zurich

 

African
Door (Anuan)
c. 1910, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

African
Door (Anuan)
before 1950, private collection

 

African
Drinking Cup
before 1900, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington

 

African
Drum
c. 1650-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Drum
before 1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Drum
before 1920, private collection

 

African
Elephant Mask
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Elephant Tusk with Relief Carving
c. 1700-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Equestrian Figure
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

African
Face Mask
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Face Mask
c. 1900-1925, Musée Picasso, Paris

 

African
Face Mask
before 1917, private collection

 

African
Face Mask
c. 1900-1950, Musée Picasso, Paris

 

African
Face Mask
before 1910, private collection

 

African
Face Mask
before 1929, private collection

 

African
Fan
c. 1800-1900, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

 

African
Female Figure
c. 1875-1900, private collection

 

African
Female Figure
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Female Figure
c. 1900, private collection

 

African
Female Figure
c. 1850-1950, Menil Collection, Houston

 

African
Female Figure
c. 1700-1800, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

   

African
Female Figure of a Spirit Wife
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Female Figure with Raised Arm
c. 1400-1600, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

   

African
Female Spirit Figure
c. 1900-1925, private collection

 

African
Female Statue
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Figure of a Court Dwarf
c. 1300-1500, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Figure of a Hornblower
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Figure of a Hornblower
c. 1600-1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Figure of a Priest or Courtier
c. 1500-1700, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Figure of a Rooster
c. 1600-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Figure of a Woman
c. 1500-1600, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Figure of Chibinda Ilunga
c. 1800-1900, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

 

African
Figure of the Eyima Byeri Reliquary
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Grave Figure
c. 1850-1950, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva

 

African
Guardian of Sleep Panel
c. 1900-2000, private collection

 

African
Head
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Head of a Queen Mother
c. 1500-1600, World Museum, Liverpool

 

African
Head of an Oba
c. 1800-1900, Musée Picasso, Paris

 

African
Head of the Guardian of the Reliquary
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Headdress Mask
c. 1875-1925, Musée Picasso, Paris

 

African
Headrest
c. 1850-1950, private collection

 

African
Headrest
c. 1850-1950, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

 

African
Headrest
c. 1800-1950, British Museum, London

   

African
Headrest
before 1929, private collection

 

African
Headrest
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Horseman Figure
c. 1500-1600, World Museum, Liverpool

 

African
Ivory Horn
c. 1500-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Ivory Staff with Horseman
c. 1500-1800, private collection

 

African
Ivory Staff with Lyase
c. 1700-1900, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

 

African
Jonyeleni (Small Nyele of the Jo)
before 1940, private collection

 

African
Jonyeleni (Small Nyele of the Jo)
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Kònò Mask
1950, private collection

 

African
Leopard Head
c. 1600-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Lidded Box
c. 1900-1950, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

 

African
Lidded Box in the Shape of an Antelope Head
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Lidded Vessel with Chain (Igie)
c. 1700-1800, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

 

African
Male Figure
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Male Figure
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Male Figure
c. 1400-1500, Menil Collection, Houston

 

African
Male Figure
c. 1200-1300, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Male Head
2nd-3rd c, Sudan National Museum, Khartoum

 

African
Male Head
c. 500-100 BCE, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Male Spirit Figure
c. 1900-1925, private collection

 

African
Male Statue
before 1911, private collection

 

African
Mask
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Mask
c. 1800-1900, British Museum, London

 

African
Mask
c. 1600-1900, private collection

 

African
Mbanchong Headdress in the Form of a Snake
c. 1800-1957, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

African
Memorial Head
c. 1600-1900, private collection

 

African
Mother and Child
c. 1300-1400, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Ndop
c. 1750-1800, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

 

African
Ndop representing Miko miMbul
c. 1800-1833, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

 

African
Ndop representing Mishe miShyaang
c. 1750-1800, Brooklyn Museum

   

African
Ndop representing Shyaam aMbul aNgoong
c. 1750-1800, British Museum, London

 

African
Ngil Mask
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

African
Oba Ozolua with Attendants
c. 1500-1700, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

African
Oduduwa Mask
c. 1700-1800, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

 

African
Osun Head
c. 1600-1800, British Museum, London

 

African
Pair of Leopard Figures
c. 1500-1800, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos

 

African
Pendant Idia Mask
c. 1500-1600, private collection

 

African
Pendant in the form of a Pluriarc
before 1900, private collection

 

African
Pipe Bowl and Stem
before 1900, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

 

African
Portuguese Figure
c. 1500-1600, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos

 

African
Power Figure (Nkisi)
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Relief Plaque: Battle Scene
c. 1500-1700, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

 

African
Relief Plaque: Coconut Tree
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Cow Sacrifice
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Emobo Ceremony
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Interior of the Royal Palace
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Leopard Hunt with Portuguese
c. 1500-1700, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Relief Plaque: Mudfish
c. 1500-1700, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Relief Plaque: Oba Esigie with Ugie Oso Staff
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Oba with Leopard and Mudfish
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Royal Triad
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Seated Portuguese
c. 1500-1700, Ethnografiska Museet, Stockholm

 

African
Relief Plaque: Three Courtiers
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Two Chiefs in Pangolin Costumes
c. 1500-1700, British Museum, London

 

African
Relief Plaque: Two Warriors
c. 1500-1700, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Reliquary Figure
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Reliquary Figure
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Reliquary Figure (Eyima Bieri)
c. 1800-1900, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

 

African
Reliquary Figure (Eyima Bieri)
c. 1800-1900, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

African
Reliquary Guardian Figure
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Reliquary Guardian Figure
before 1929, private collection

 

African
Royal Prestige Object
before 1700

 

African
Sango Shrine Figure with Bowl
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Seated Figure
c. 1200-1400, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos

 

African
Seated Male Figure
c. 1850-1950, private collection

 

African
Seated Male Figure
c. 1500-1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Seated Male Figure
c. 500 BCE - 500 CE, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

   

African
Seated Male Orebok Figure
before 1853, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

   

African
Senior Male Helmet Mask
c. 1910-1925, private collection

 

African
Snake Head
c. 1500-1800, Nigerian National Museum, Lagos

 

African
Spoon in the Form of a Female Figure
c. 1800-1950, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

African
Staff
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Staff Handle
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Staff Handle
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Standing Female Figure
c. 1900-1950, private collection

   

African
Standing Female Figure (Prestige Staff Finial)
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Standing Figure
before 1700, Ethnografisch Museum, Antwerp

 

African
Standing Figure
c. 1900-1950, private collection

 

African
Standing Male Cultic Figure
c. 1900-1950, private collection

   

African
Suruku Kore mask
c. 1900-1950, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

 

African
Sword with Scabbard
c. 1800-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Territory of the Former Benin Kingdom

 

African
Throne of Oba Eresoyen
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Trophy Head
c. 1400-1600, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Water Jug
c. 1850-1900, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

 

African
Water Pipe
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

African
Yirimaani
1868, private collection

 

African
Yirimaani
1868, private collection

 

Olowe of Ise [African, c. 1860 – 1938]
Veranda Post
c. 1910-1914, private collection