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- Daily Palette Digital Collection
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- School of Art & Art History Graduate Archive
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- Iowa Gallery
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- Pendant
- #14 Kwango/ Kwilu Rivers Basin The Pende carve small reproductions in ivory of several of their common mask types. These ikhoko are worn around the neck as pendants by those who are responsible for guarding masks from theft and destruction, and...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- "Classified as lukwakongo , this mask type is owned in most Legaareas by individual male members of the second highest grade ( yananio )in the bwami association. This mask appears in several phases of the yananio initiations and is used in...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Cup
- "The very worn, smooth, and soft] patina of this cup indicates that it must have been used as a cult container for palm oil, rather than as a cup for drinking palm wine, the more usual function of cupsfrom the area. The foot motif that forms the...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure - test 2
- A number of functions have been attributed to these figures (Cornet 1971:202-207); the most carefully carved are portraits of specific ancestors. Figures which are sometimes less finished represent spirits (vidye) associated with natural forces...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure - test 1
- A number of functions have been attributed to these figures (Cornet 1971:202-207); the most carefully carved are portraits of specific ancestors. Figures which are sometimes less finished represent spirits (vidye) associated with natural forces...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- A number of functions have been attributed to these figures (Cornet 1971:202-207); the most carefully carved are portraits of specific ancestors. Figures which are sometimes less finished represent spirits (vidye) associated with natural forces...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- A number of functions have been attributed to these figures (Cornet 1971:202-207); the most carefully carved are portraits of specific ancestors. Figures which are sometimes less finished represent spirits (vidye) associated with natural forces...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- A number of style characteristics help identify this as thework of the Hemba, who live east of the Lualaba River, rather than of the Luba, who live on the west bank: The shape of the head, with a high, domed forehead, very sharp, angular jawline,...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- According to Kevin Carroll (1967: 159, pl. 28) the Yoruba call large figures of women, generally in the kneeling position and holding bowls, olumeye, ³the one knowing honor.² The figures are carried on the top of the head by women at religious...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- According to the recently published work of Dunja Hersak this fine old Songye mask, called kifwebe (pl. bifwebe ), may be distinguished as a female mask by the white color and the flat crest from the front to the back of the head. The term...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- Aggressiveness and a need for high achievement are characteristic of the Ibo. Success and self-reliance of Ibo men is believed to lie in the strength of their right arms. Every Ibo male may own a personal shrine called ikenga (³place of...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- Although masks in this form frequently have been called mosh¹ambooy (CMS no. 373; Maesen 1967:36; Cornet 1971:138), recent research by Binkley indicates that it is probably of a type called mukyeem. The masks are characterized by a shape...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- Although this mask lacks the horn-like projections that are characteristic of many Idoma masks, comparison with field photos taken in 1958 by Roy Sieber of masks carved in about 1946 by the Idoma artist Adaba from Otobi village make it quite...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Headdress
- Although this object strongly resembles the skin-covered crests worn on the top of the head by various groups in Southern Nigeria (cf. CMS no. ; Nicklin 1974), the construction of the base, which lacks holes for attaching a wicker framework,...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- Among a number of groups in central Upper Volta. including the Nuna, Ko, Kassena, Sissala, and Lela, who are collectively referred to as gurunsi by their neighbors, wooden masks are worn with loose fiber costumes dyed bright yellow, red, and...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Equestrian Figure
- Among the best known and most eagerly sought objects produced by the Jenne culture are the large, fired-clay figures of mounted warriors (de Grunne 1980:76-83). These are notable for the attention given to details such as the saddle, bridle, and...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Dog
- Among the Dogon, as among many groups in the upper basin of the Volta Rivers, dogs are frequently the victims of sacrifices to ancestral spirits. Griaule (1938: 348.350) describes the sacrifice of a dog during rites marking the opening of the...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection