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- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders, vol. 20 no. 1, January 1903
- Telegraphers; Railroad employees' unions; Periodicals
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders
- Railroad Telegrapher, vol. 9, no. 19, September 15, 1893
- Telegraphers; Railroad employees' unions; Periodicals
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders
- Mask
- What does a Tabwa person "become" when he dons a buffalo mask? Several traits of buffalo anatomy and behavior are significant by Tabwa reckoning. Buffaloes are found in herds in which reddish cows and black bulls live together in the light...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- John Kilham: entertainer
- Traveling Culture - Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
- Mask
- The Yaka peoples are said to be descendants of the fierce nomadic Jaga warriors who terrorized and destroyed the Congo Kingdom in the 16th century. With the formation of the Inbangala Kingdom by the Lunda of Angola in the first part of the 17th...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- This figure, field-collected by Marc Félix in the mid-1970s, is remarkably similar to five others in two private Belgian collections (illustrated in Roberts and Maurer 1985: 142-4). Four of these were field-collected as a set near the town of...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Cup
- Called kopa by the northern Suku, containers such as this one traditionally served as symbols of leadership. On his death bed, the lemba or lineage headman may present a kopa to his successor. Local political officials presented similar cups to...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- Experts have failed to agree about the ethnic identity of this beautiful figure of a woman. It has been known as Pende since it was collected in the 1920's, although we do not know if this identification is based on field data. Malutshi...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. David C. Jones
- Generals; United States. Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Editorial Cartoons of Frank Miller
- Railway Conductor, vol. 07, no. 9, May 1, 1890
- Railroad employees; Periodicals
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders
- Railway Conductor, vol. 08, no. 6, March 15, 1891
- Railroad employees; Periodicals
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders, vol. 15 no. 4, April 1898
- Telegraphers; Railroad employees' unions; Periodicals
- Journals of Historic Railroad Orders
- Figure
- This small northern Yaka magical figure (biteki ) was probably used by a particular lineage to control the evil influences of a hereditary disease. It may have also have protected the owner¹s property and inflicted injury on witches or other...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- The Tabwa live in extreme southeast Zaire, on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika. The Tumbwe live to the north, and the Bemba to the south in Zambia. The Hemba are to the west. This male ancestor figure belongs to Style I, the "Classic Tabwa...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- The Hemba are best known for their beautiful figures of chiefs (CMS no. 124), which have been studied in detail by François Neyt. Hemba masks are less well known and we have only a few brief notes on their meaning. They may be called soko mutu...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- While both Yaka and Suku style characteristics are present in this figure, Arthur Bourgeois has attributed it to the Yaka in his new book Art of the Yaka and Suku (Bourgeois 1984). He writes: "In my book [the figure] is published as Yaka...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Hip Mask
- This face pendant was created for the court of the Kingdom of Benin, a highly centralized state founded in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries in southwestern Nigeria , ruled by a divine king, or Oba, with a complex pyramidal bureaucracy of...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- This is one of several types of Yaka masks which are worn in dances celebrating the emergence of young initiates from the circumcision camp (nkanda ). It is intended to be carried as a dance wand rather than worn as a mask, and is only held...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- Masks of this type, called elefon in Efon-Alaye in northeast Yoruba country, were worn over the head by strong young men to memorialize long-deceased members of the family that owns the mask. The figures that surmount the pot-shaped mask ( ikoko...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Bracelet
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection