African Art

Running Horned Woman

6000-4000 BCE

Pigment on rock

Algeria

Pylon of the Nubian Lion temple at Naga

Sudan, 1-20C.E

Left: King Natakamani

Right: Queen Amanitore

Commemorative Stela for Queen MSR

Inscribed in ornamental Kufic 

1119 CE

Mali

Schist

King Ezana’s Stela at Aksum

4th century 

ethiopia

The great stela

Mid 4th century

Aksum Ethiopia

520 tons

Church of Beta Giyorgis

12-13th century

Lalibela Ethiopia

Diptych with Mary and her son Flanked by archangels, apostles and a saint

15th century 

Ethiopia

glue tempera on wood panel

Right half of a diptych with the virgin and child

Niccolo Brancaleon (Italian)

Ca. 1500

glue tempera on wood panel

Ambraham Cresques (Majorcan) 

Atlas of Maritime Charts (the Catalan Atlas) 

1375

illuminated parchment mounted on six wooden panels

Bibliotheque nationale de France 

Seated figure

Ile-Ife, collected at Nigeria

late 13-14th century

Abuja Nigeria

National commission for museums and monuments

Mousgoum House, Tolek 

Mourla Cameroon, 1996

Commemorative Head

Benin city, Edo State, Nigeria

Early 16th century

British Museum

Kanaga Mask

Mali, Dogon peoples

20th century 

wood fiber hide pigment

MET

Great Mask

1907-1914

Dogon Mali

Wood, paint, fibers 

Sowei Mask with Tortoise

Mende peoples, Sierra Leone 

19th Century

Wood, Paint, Fibers 

Power Object (Nkisi N’Kondi Mangaaka) 

Kongo peoples, Democratic republic of the Congo

mid to late 19th century

Wood, paint, metal, ceramic, resin

Boli, Power object

Bamana Initiate, Komo Association

central Mali

early 20th century

Wood, Applied organic materials

Ife Head, Brass head of a ruler, Sri Olokun 

1300-1450

Brass

made in Ife, present day Nigeria

Ibeji, Twin Figure

19-20th century

Nigeria

Yoruba peoples

Wood, beads, cam wood powder, pigment

Exterior view of Mbari House

Artist: Nnaji

1967

Igbo Peoples

Ndiama Village, Town of Obube, Nigeria