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Title	Artist	Medium & Support	Creation Date
Face Mask		wood
Face Mask		wood
Face Mask		wood with kaolin and string
Face Mask		wood
Face Mask		wood
Face Mask		wood
Face Mask		brass and wood	20th century
Face Mask (Gle)		wood and fiber	early 20th century - mid 20th century
Face Mask (Ichahoho or Adomanyi)	Okati of Ojakpama Village	wood, pigment, and kaolin	early 20th century - mid 20th century
Face Mask (Kpeliye'e)		brass
Face Mask (Ninea-Gla)		wood, metal, and chalk	early 20th century
Face Mask (olojufoforo)		wood and pigment	20th century
Female Ere Ibeji Figure		wood	20th century
Female Ere Ibeji Figure		wood with beads and indigo	20th century
Female Ere Ibeji Figure		wood with beads and indigo	20th century
Female Figure		wood with kaolin and beads
Female Figure		wood and beads
Female Figure		wood and beads
Female Figure		bronze
Female Figure (akua'ba)		black wood	20th century
Female Figure (akua'mma)		wood and beads
Female Figure (nkisi)		wood and porcelain	early 20th century
Female Figure with Beads (Akua'ba)		wood	early 20th century - mid 20th century
Female Ibeji Figure		wood
Female Power Figure		wood and feathers	early 20th century
Female Standing Figure (alusi)		wood (camwood) and paint	late 19th century
Fragment of a Standing Female Figure		wood
Funerary Cloth		cotton, horizontal strip weave with over-weft pattern	1975
Grave	Saro-Wiwa, Zina	pigment inkjet on porous-coated baryta paper	2014
Guardian Staff		wood and metal
Half Figure		wood
Hand Held Hoe		wood and metal
Hand-held Cross		wood	20th century
He gazed into the liquid darkness in which desires drowned, from where the body's delicious pains emerged	deSouza, Al-An	digital C-print on paper mounted on aluminum	2001
Head		terracotta	ca. 500 BCE - 300 CE
Head		terracotta	possibly between 16th century - 19th century
Headrest		wood and leather
Headrest		wood
Heddle Pulley		wood and copper nails	20th century
Heddle Pulley		wood
Helmet Mask		wood
Helmet Mask		wood
Helmet Mask (agbogho mmuo)		wood and pigment	19th century
Helmet Mask (agbogho mmuo)		wood with pigment and kaolin
Helmet Mask (Aguru Epa)		wood and pigment
Helmet Mask (Bundu society)		wood
Helmet Mask (epa)		wood and pigment	mid 20th century
Helmet Mask (epa)		wood, iron, fiber, and sacrificial substances	mid 19th century - late 19th century
Helmet Mask (hemba)		wood
Helmet Mask (kpongyuno)	Soro, Zana	wood	1970
Helmet mask (Kponyungo)	Wariny’e of Puloro village, Dikodougou District	wood with kaolin pipe clay white and red vegetable dye	1970
Helmet Mask (mboom), incorrectly reworked for resale on market		wood with monkey fur, metal, beads, cowrie shells, and seeds
Helmet Mask (Sowei)		wood	early 20th century - mid 20th century
Helmet Mask for Sande Initiation Society		wood	early 20th century
Helmet Mask With Spiked Crest		wood with red pigment
Honey Pot		terracotta
Hornbill Mask (Gegon) with Islamic Inscriptions		wood, raffia, and ink	mid 20th century
Hunter's Decoy in Shape of a Bird		wood, antelope skin, and bird head
Hunting	Unknown Artist	paint on cloth	ca. 1970
Ibeji Figure		wood, nails, cowrie shells, and camwood powder	early 20th century
Ibeji Figure	Master of the Archaic Smile	wood	early 20th century
Ibeji Figure		wood and beads	early 20th century
Ifa Divination Tray (Opon-Ifa)		wood and pigment	20th century
Ikenga Figure		wood with pigment, cloth, magic materials (blood, chicken feathers)	20th century
Incense Burner with Fragment of Lamp Disc		bronze	probably 20th century
Initiation Mask (nkanda)		wood, pigment, basketry, and bamboo
Janus	Saro-Wiwa, Zina	pigment inkjet on porous-coated baryta paper	2014
Jar for Oil, Water, or Alcohol		terracotta
Justice of the Emperor Theodore (Tewodros)	Wende, Wondimu	paint on cloth	ca. 1968
Kneeling Female Figure with Bowl (olumeye)		wood with indigo and pigment	20th century
Kneeling Female Figure with Child		wood	late 19th century - early 20th century
Kneeling Mother and Child Figure		terracotta
Knife		iron and wood
Knife Handle		wood
Kola Nut Container		wood	mid 20th century
Kungang Night Society Mask		wood	19th century - 20th century
Ladder		wood
Ladder		wood
Leopard-Shaped Stool		wood, red paint, black paint, and white paint
Lidded Pot		terracotta
Lidded Pot for Storing Personal Possessions		terracotta
Lineage Society “Leader” Mask (n'kang)		wood, hair, and fiber	19th century - 20th century
Male Divination Figure		wood with kaolin
Male Ere Ibeji Figure		wood	20th century
Male Figure (bateba)		wood	20th century
Male Standing Figure (alusi)		wood (camwood) and paint	late 19th century
Male Torso (fragment)		wood
Marionette		wood, metal, fiber, and cloth	20th century
Mask		wood, metal, and cloth	20th century
Men's Clay Flask with Abstract Detail		blackened earthenware