Rear Skirt Panel for Ngady Amwaash Royal Masquerade
A royal Amwaash masker bowing to a Kuba king and wearing a rear skirt panel nearly identical to this one.
A royal Amwaash masker bowing to a Kuba king and wearing a rear skirt panel nearly identical to this one.
Click on the links below to see images of Kuba kings adorned in royal beadwork:
For further reading about early Christianity and the Kongo Kingdom, see the excellent and award-winning book by Cecile Fromont: The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo.
Images of the horse and rider among the Bamana people of Mali
The sculpture in the image above is located on the second floor of the Snite Museum. It is inspired by power figures from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Owen D. Mort Jr. described each of the 61 objects in this Chokwe divination basket in his handwritten and illustrated book: The Art of Zaire. Click on the images below to expand the detailed descriptions by Mort.
Guere masquerades in Côte d’Ivoire (VIDEO)
This painting, located on the second floor of the Snite Museum, has an image inspired by this type of Senufo Style Mask.
Below are two 1935 photographs of a Herero woman in Botswana wearing this headdress, taken by Sir R. D. Furse, a British Colonial Officer, who collected this object.
Yoruba Egungun Masquerades in Motion (VIDEO)
Masking performance with a Pende Gitenga mask
The sacred crown of the Yoruba people, with Dr. Henry J. Drewal (VIDEO)
Welcome to Dimensions of Power, African Art at the Snite Museum
Ceremony of the Glewa mask (VIDEO)
Messages of Power: The Fante Asafo Military Flag at the Snite Museum of Art (video)
Image above is of an early 20th Century postcard showing a manned racing boat in the Duala, Cameroon harbor with a German steamship in the background.
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American, Lakota nation
Western Pueblo culture
Mexican, Paquimé culture
American, Crow nation
White Swan
Unidentified artist
Unidentified artist