Scope and Contents Description: Nkisi figure. Media: Wood, raffin, horn. Size: 8" x 8" x 21" or 8" x 6 1/2" x 21". Surface: Hard, shiny, waxy accretion at top of head and forehead, surface dull with much wear. Stability: Cracks: one and three quarters inches at both sides of stomach at hands, one inch, one inch, and one half...

Scope and Contents Description: Mask. Media: Wood, beads, cowry, seed pods, and canvas. Size: 30 1/2" x 12" x 13 1/2". Surface: Heavily soiled, especially beaded areas and canvas; chips/abrasions at edge of left nostril, front edge, and left ear; stains throughout beard. Stability: Beads loose at left temple and forehead, missing one inch...

Scope and Contents Description: Wood mask. Media: Carved wood, pigment, and hair. Size: 20 1/2" x 9" x 10 1/4". Surface:Loss of hair from left nostril, chip one and a half by two and five eighths inches in size on front neck area, wear in neck area, wear and loss from mouth, nose, and crest, soiled surface, wear throughout, finish dull, and several old gouges on right...

Scope and Contents Description: Crouching nude bearded male figure. Media: Wood, seed pod, shells, fur. Size: 8" x 8 1/4" x 23 5/8". Surface: White accretion on lips, nose, and forehead, surface worn evenly and burnished even in areas of loss, surface cracking in facial area, particularly profound abrasions on arms, accretion (perhaps paint) on face. ...

Scope and Contents Description: Carved mask. Media: Carved wood, pigment, metal, fur. Size: 13 3/4" x 11 3/8" x 16". Surface: Small pinholes throughout, some penetrating from front to back, surface irregular from soil accretion and wear, heavy scratching on forehead, right ear, cheek, base edges, right ear missing, left cheek missing carved area, scratches to nose,...

Scope and Contents Description: Multi-faced totem. Media: Wood, pigment, fur, and leather. Size: 13 3/4" x 5" x 5". Surface: Wear throughout, especially in relief areas; paper taped to base reads: "04-Kimatwe Matwe REGA." Stability: Crack along side of head from neck to crown at four and three quarters inches, crack along lower...

Scope and Contents Title: Carved mask. Media: Wood, pigment, metal, and teeth. Size: 18" x 12" x 8". Surface: Heavy flaking, facial area, soiled on bottom half of facial area, abrasions at connection edge, pigment in eyes cracked and flaking. Stability: Several structural cracks in facial area, broken piece previously repaired, acute...

Scope and Contents Description: Kneeling female figure stool. Media: Carved wood. Size: 16 1/2" x 13 1/4" x 13". Surface: Worn at top of seat, soiled throughout, sticky blue accretion on seat. Stability: Cracking: buttocks, right hand to center across seat, radial across top, right side of head, vertical through chest to groin, right knee...

Scope and Contents Title: Seated, bearded figure with feathered headdress. Media: Wood, feathers, metal, hide, beads, raffia, hair. Size: 18" x 7" x 6 1/2". Surface: Soiled, especially in creases, feathers matted, broken, and worn, surface wear. Stability: Skin dry and brittle, hair missing from left nostril, piece broken, one missing...

Scope and Contents Description: Standing male figure with smaller figures. Media: Wood, bone, shell, skin, raffia, horn, metal, teeth, and fur. Size: 45" x 12" x 7". Surface: Heavily soiled in parts, fur matted, hard accretion to back of head, possibly missing component to back of head, scratches throughout head. Stability: Large and deep...

Scope and Contents Description: Bearded figure holding penis. Media: Wood, bone/horn, bead, and fiber. Size: 27" x 10 1/4" x 9". Surface: Two inch scuff on right forearm, mild abrasions throughout, particularly around head. Stability: Cracks: two at twelve and five eighths inches at right side of face, headband to chest, right forearm...

Scope and Contents Description: Figure. Media: Carved wood, fiber, fur, bead, shell. Size: 18" x 6" x 6" or 19" x 6" x 6". Surface: Accretion and soiling in fur, surface shiny, soil accretion in recessed areas, scrapes throughout. Stability: Profound loss to base area, especially in front, cracks: three and one eighth inches...

Scope and Contents Title: Carved female figure stool. Media: Wood, fiber, seed pod, and cowry. Size: 17 3/4" x 12" x 10 1/8". Surface: Cracks: radial in bottom of base, radial in top clockwise from ten o'clock: one and a half inches, three quarters of an inch, one and five eighths inches, one and three eighths inches, one half of an inch, one inch, one inch, two and an...

Scope and Contents Title: Double-headed female figure. Media: Wood, fiber, metal, and bead. Size: 21 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 8". Surface: Heavily soiled, especially around fiber, metal oxidized, some minor scrapes, especially around head, base, and hands. Stability: Fiber stiff, cracking: left foot,  rear of base at three and one quarter, two and...

Scope and Contents Title: Two-headed figure. Media: Wood, fiber, and bead. Size: 28" x 12 1/2" x 9 1/4" or 28 1/2" x 13" x 9 1/2". Surface: Soiled throughout, dirt caked into beads and fiber, white accretion on head. Stability: Numerous cracks throughout, the most major being: five and one half inches at left of base, seven...

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Medium sized Songye style Power Figure with horn and metal criscrosed mask on face. Materials: horn, wood, leather, wicker, metal spikes and metal stripes on face, and cloth and beads. Arm has a recent crack.

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Hemba style medium sized monkey figure seized from Cameroon.  Wood, with a charcoal patina on body.

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A Mask with carving and cowerie shells and rolled fabric on sides seized from Cameroon.

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A Mask with a crown of cowerie shells and a raffia underskirt. Also includes beads. Siezed from Cameroon.