Head of a Queen Mother (Iyoba) – Edo peoples – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310282
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Commissioned for a descendent of Ézá»�Ì�má»�Ì� Ehẹnnua, Benin City, by the late 19th century; by descent to Ézá»�Ì�má»�Ì� Aiweragbon, Benin City, 1961–ca. 1994; Abdullaha Ibrahim, Cotonou, Republic of Benin, by 1994–95; Charles B
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[Dr. Marcel Lheureux, Paris, acquired 1920s]; P. Alsace; [John J. Klejman, New York, until 1960]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1960–1964; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1964–1978
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sculpture from West and Central Africa; images of gods, ancestors, and spirits from New Guinea
“Christian Ethiopia’s political and territorial decline, which began in the sixteenth century, continues throughout this period due in part to encroachment by pastoral peoples and emergent Muslim states such as Harar, in western Ethiopia. Efforts to unify the Ethiopian Church and restore security and prosperity to the kingdom produce a period of artistic florescence centered at the capital city of Gondar. Along the East African coast, first Portugal and then the sultanate of Oman gain control of Swahili economic centers; Mombasa, in modern-day Kenya, becomes an important state in the eighteenth century under Omani rule.”
Guinea Coast, 1600–1800 A.D. Southern Africa, 1600–1800 A.D.
Sean Connelly’s Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
and the Marshall Islands), larger and densely forested islands (such as Papua New Guinea
Belau archipelago comprises one large and numerous smaller islands north of New Guinea
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[Power associations] are dynamic institutions that respond to local contexts and historical change and thus exhibit great variability.
primarily concentrated in communities of Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea
[René Rasmussen, Gallery AAA, Paris (purchased in Bamako region, Mali) 1953–1961]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, 1961–1964; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1964–1978
Masquerades Help students understand the connections between art and the environment of Guinea