BM: African Art

Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's African Art department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum.

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Anklet with Four Bells, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 2 3/8 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/4 in. (6 x 18 x 7 cm) Medium: Copper alloy

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/171349

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Photograph album page with three photographs of women in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1920s, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Size: H x W (2013.79.20a sheet): 3 ½ x 2 9/16 in. (8.9 x 6.5 cm) Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, construction paper

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.79.20abc

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Small Engraved Bracelet, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Medium: Iron

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/22399

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Anklets, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Open one side Size: 2006.66.25a: 1 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (5 x 10.5 cm) 2006.66.25b: 1 15/16 x 4 5/16 in. (5 x 11 cm) Medium: Copper alloy

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/171394

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Bracelet, late 19th or early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 6 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (16.5 x 7 x 7 cm) Medium: Silver

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/163702

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Bracelet, 16th century, Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art

Size: H x W x D: 14.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.) Medium: Ivory

https://africa.si.edu/collections/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:16190

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Sarong, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Size: 23 ¼ × 47 13/16 in. (59 × 121.5 cm) Medium: Silk & Metal Thread, Sequins, Wool

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/58921

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Bracelet, before 1922, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Circular, undecorated slice of ivory with polished exterior surface. Interior is roughly finished, scraped and chipped, with brown mottling. Size: 1 11/16 x 3 1/4 in. (4.3 x 8.3 cm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/141827

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Pair of Earrings (Akaparaparet), mid-20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 2 x 1 1/4 in. (5.1 x 3.2 cm) Medium: Copper alloy

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/156124

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Figure of Female, 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: height: 12 in. (30.5 cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/215959

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Ritual Bell, 13th-15th century, Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art

Size: 5 ½ x 2 ¾ in. (14 x 7 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112208

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Komo Society Mask, late 19th-early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Animal mask to be worn on top of head. Long narrow head with pair of long antelope horns projecting horizontally from one end and three smaller pairs set along snout between pairs of bristles. Snout is pierced by 3 rectangular openings. CONDITION: Completely covered with thick sacrificial patina. Many losses from insect damage. large piece of patina missing right rear. Two front pairs of horns are loose. Size: 14 x 8 x 33 1/2 in. (35.6 x 20.3 x 85.1 cm) Medium: Wood, metal, antelope horns, porcupine quills, organic materials

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4810

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Horn, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 2 1/4 x 13 in. (5.7 x 33 cm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/32608

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Spoon, late 19th-early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 4 7/8 x 1 5/16 in. (12.3 x 3.3 cm) Medium: Brass

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/101305

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Hair Ornament, late 19th or early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Slim, slightly curved, needle-shaped, ivory hair ornament. At wider end, shallow loss at edge, small crack down side, and tiny surface nicks in ivory. At other end, very tip missing. Condition: Fair Size: 18 1/2 x 1/2 in. (47 x 1.3 cm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2918

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Hand Cross (mäsqäl), 19th or 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of Africa

Size: 23 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 7/8 in. (59.8 x 18.7 x 2.2 cm) Medium: Wood

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/155872

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Head, 19th or early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Pacific Islands

Malangan figure from near Kavieng, New Ireland Size: 22 ¾ x 6 ½ x 8 ¾ in. (57.8 x 16.5 x 22.2 cm) Medium: Wood, fiber, Turbo petholatus opercula, pigment

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/65158