EditorialReliquary?Figure, 19th?century, Wood, brass, copper, iron, and cowrie shells, 28 1/8 ? 14 3/4 ? 2 3/8 in. (71.5 ? 37.5 ? 6?cm), Kota reliquaries emphasize the head. From this stylized, flattened rendering of the human head with a popular nineteenth-cen...
EditorialBeads, Iran, Iron Age II, Date ca. 9th century B.C., Iran, Hasanlu, Iran, Faience, Egyptian blue, stone, glass, cowrie shells, 12.99 in. (32.99 cm), Faience-Ornaments.
Editorialhelmet mask for Sande association, Mende people, 20th century, wood, pigment, mastic, fiber, metals, cowrie shells, claws, 16-1/8 x 8-1/2 x 9 in., African Art.
Editorialhelmet mask (mukyeem), Kuba people, first half of 20th century, cloth, cowrie shells, glass beads, fiber, wood, fur, approximately H:17-1/2 in., African Art.
EditorialMale Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Early/mid?19th century, Vili, Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Wood, metal, glass, fabric, fiber, cowrie shells, bone, leather, gourd, and feathers, H. 72 cm (28 1/3 in.).
EditorialPendant, 19th century, Kuba, Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jute, raffia, cowrie shells, and beads, 54.6 ? 14 ? 2.5 cm (21 1/2 ? 5 1/2 ? 1 in.).
EditorialBelt (Yeemy Mambolmashet), 19th century, Kuba, Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jute, raffia, cowrie shells, and beads, 223.5 ? 13.3 ? 1.3 cm (88 1/4 ? 5 1/4 ? 1/2 in.).
EditorialHelmet Mask, before 1880, Cameroon, Grassfields region, Bamum kingdom, Wood, copper, glass beads, raffia, cowrie shells, H. 26 x W. 14 x D. 10 3/4 in. (66 x 35.6 x 27.3 cm), Beads-Sculpture, In the socially and politically stratified polities of the Gr...