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- Scottish Highlander newsletter, 1951-1952
- Pipe bands
- Dated January 1952
- Scottish Highlanders Collection
- Scottish Highlander newsletter, 1955-1956
- Pipe bands
- Christmas letter 1955
- Scottish Highlanders 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
- Grant Wood scrapbook 74: Grant Wood, 1900-1964
- One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
- Figge Art Museum Grant Wood Digital Collection
- South America
- Traveling Culture - Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
- G. Whitfield Ray: famous explorer
- Traveling Culture - Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
- Female Figure
- Small wooden figures, representing both male and female ancestors, are made by specialist carvers who are members of the endogamous smith caste. Both Desplanges (1907:277,294,295,299,337,338; cited in Siroto 1976:17) and Lem (1948:40, pl. 2) state...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- Figures of this type, among the oldest wooden objects from Africa, have been preserved by the dry climate and relative absence of insects in the Bandiagara escarpment, where they have been discovered in association with burials in small caves high...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Figure
- This figure forms a clear transition between what has been referred to as the "Tellem style" (CMS no.256 ) and the well known "classical" Dogon style (cat. CMS 257). As in the "Tellem style" figure the crust of sacrificial material obscures the...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Door
- This is one half of a granary door which, as in CMS no. , originally was composed of two broad panels joined together. The two posts at the right, worn by years of use, permitted the door to swing outward. Carved In low relief, the five small...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- Very few examples of this type of object have ever been published, and Daniel Biebuyck has written: "Little is known about this rare mask type, which is not mentioned in the earlier sources on the Mbole. It is possible the the mask was used in...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Door
- Small wooden doors are used by the Dogon and other groups in the Western Sudan on mud brick granaries in which each family¹s supply of millet Is stored during the long dry season. In the past, these doors were secured by carved wooden locks....
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Door
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- The Dogon call this type of mask satimbe and use it in performances of the men's awa mask society to honor deceased elders at the dama death anniversary ceremonies. The mask represents theYasigine , the only woman in the village who is...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Bowl and Lid
- The Dogon use large wooden bowls as containers for a mixture of donkey meat and mutton at ritual feasts celebrating the harvest. Beginning with the priest (hogon ) each person in the community eats a bit of the meat. This bowl is carried on the...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Mask
- The Lele live west of the Kasai River, north of the Pende. The Kuba live just across the Kasai to the east. The Lele are believed to have come from the area of Lake Tumba and Lake Leopold II with the Kuba, crossing to the east of the Kasai only...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- The Dogon live in the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment, and on the plains that stretch to the southeast into Upper Volta. Their oral history indicates that they are not the original inhabitants of the region, but migrated from the Mande area in...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Female Figure
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection
- Couple
- Such large male-female couples were placed in Dogon village shrines where they represented the mythical progenitors of the Dogon, the primordial couple born before the four other nommo pairs at the creation. Such figures received sacrifices...
- University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection