AFRICA

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MAP OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

MAASAI - KENYA & TANZANIA

• Warrior Near Ngorogoro, Johnson Photo 1991
• detail of above, Johnson Photo 1991
• Maasai Woman, Ngorogoro, Johnson Photo 1991
• Maasai Woman, Ngorogoro, Johnson Photo 1991
• Maasai Bride with Bead Dance Necklace, Johnson Photo 1991
• Necklaces & Ear Ornaments, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Maasai Jumping Dance, Ngorogoro, Johnson Photo, 1991

BURUNDI

• Map of Burundi
• Coiled Basket
• Women Carrying Baskets & Wearing Kangas, Johnson Photo 1991
• Market Baskets, bamboo, Johnson Photo 1991
• Tutsi Basket with conical lid 20th c. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Johnson Photo
• House of Drums at Gishora, Johnson Photo 1991
• Leaping Drummers of Gishora, Johnson Photo 1991
• Drummers of Gishora, Johnson Photo 1991
• Chief of Gishora Drummers

PYGMIES - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Welcome to Pygmy Village, Johnson Photo 1991
• Pygmy Chief with Rattles and Spirit of the Forest Gourd, Johnson Photo 1991
• Pygmy Chief Examining a Camera, Johnson Photo 1991

ANCIENT SUDAN - FARAS & KERMA (KUSH)

• Ancient Egypt/Sudan Map. Nile Valley
• Egyptian 18th Dynasty "Nubians Bringing Luxury Items", Johnson Photo
• Faras A Group Eggshell Ware Fingerprint Patterns, British Museum, 3000BC, Johnson Photo
• Faras Group A Eggshell Ceramic Bowl, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 3100-2800 BC
  Johnson Photo
• Classic Kerma Tulip Beaker and Spouted Pot , Johnson Photo
• Kerma Black Polished Bowl with Incised White-filled Decoration
• Kerma Carnelian Bead Necklace
• Gilded Ivory & Copper Fly 2000-1500 B.C. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Johnson Photo
• Pan Grave Culture Painted Cow Skull, 2200-1700, Boston Museum, Johnson Photo
  Kerma.  Eastern view of Duffufa
• Kerma Reconstructed Burial bed
• Faience Hippopotamus 1600-1500 B.C. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Johnson Photo
• Kerma Hippopotamus Goddess Taweret
• Kerma Ibex & Bustard
• Sphinx of Tahargo
• Statuette of a Nubian Woman

NOK - NIGERIA 900 B.C. - 200 A.D.


• Map of the Ancient Civilizations of Nigeria
• Theoretical Diagram of a Nok Temple with Statues
• Katsina style Seated Male Figure 500 B.C. - 500A.D.
• Large Male Statue 150 B.C.
• Jenne Amulet Statuette 1470 A.D.
• Nok Head
• Female Terracotta Fragment
• Terracotta Heads with Snake and Harvest Scenes, Louvre, Paris, Johnson Photo

IFE - NIGERIA 500 A.D. - 1600 A.D.

• Obalufon Mask, 11th-12thc., bronze
• Idealized Bronze Head of an Oni
• Scarification Patterns of a Nigerian Man
• Small Oni Bronze, 14-15thc.
• Bronze Staff of a Bound Man
• Recent Oni of Ife Wearing Beaded Crown
• Portrait of an Oni, 12th to 16th century, British Museum, London, Johnson Photo

BENIN - NIGERIA 1350 A.D. - 1897 A.D.

• Dutch Print of 1668 of Oba in Annual Procession
• Bronze Box of the Palace with Royal Ibis & Python, Berlin, Johnson Photo
• Python Head from Royal Palace, bronze, Berlin, Johnson Photo
• Portuguese Soldier, bronze, Phoebe Hearst, Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Royal Ivory Leopard, British Museum, London, Johnson Photo
• Detail of Above, Johnson Photo
• Oba Akenzua II Seated with Altar to his Hand & to previous Oba
• Oba Adolo Altar with Elephant Tusks & Bronze Heads
• Female Royal Head 15th-16th c. Johnson Photo
• Head of an Oba, bronze, 18th c., National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Chief Osuma in Pangolin Chief's Regalia with Pectoral Mask & Ceremonial Sword
• Ivory Pectoral Mask, British Museum, London, Johnson Photo
• Bronze Plaque of Oba, British Museum, London
• A helmet mask (ododua) , mid-18th c, British Museum, London, Johnson Photo
  
  

YORUBA

• Map of Yorubaland
• Diagram of Key Elements of the Yoruba Cosmos
• Priest of Esu/Elegba Dancing
• Esu Image as Worn Upside Down When Danced
• Esu Dance Vestment, Phoebe Hearst Museum, U.C. Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Esu Dance Staff, wood, beads, etc.
• Esu Dance Staff, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Johnson Photo
• Esu, wood, British Museum, London, Johnson Photo
• Esu, cowry shells, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Esu, woosu, wod, cowry shells, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Johnson Photo
• Esu, Held by the Arugba
• Esu Shrine of the Elemoso
• Ifa Divination Board, wood, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Babalawo Kolawole Ositola Beginning Divination with the Cross Road Sign
• Ifa Imori Divination
• Ifa Divining Board, Tapper, & Kola Nuts, Phoebe Hearst Museum, U.C. Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Ifa Divining Tapper, Ivory, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Ifa Divining Tappers, Ivory & Iron, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Queen Victoria, wood, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Ifa divination materials container, Phoebe Hearst Museum, U.C. Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Ibeji, Woman in Her Seventies with Ibeji Brother 1970
• Mother of Twins Dancing
• Ibeji, King of Oyo, wood with beaded vest, Phoebe Hearst Museum, U.C. Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Ibeji with Protective Birds, Oyo, wood with beaded vest, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Senior Thunder God Priest
• Ibeji with Sango Beaded Vest, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Ibeji in Cowry Shell Vest, U.C.L.A., Johnson Photo
• Ibeji, Ron Johnson collection, Johnson Photo
• Ibeji, U.C.L.A.. Johnson Photo
• Gelede Dancer with mask with two snakes devouring antelopes 1971
• Gelede Mask with pigs, Johnson Photo
• Gelede Mask with a drummer 20th c. Stanford, Johnson Photo

IGBO - NIGERIA

• Mbari House, Sacred Side, near Owerri
• Installation of Dinner Plates in Mbari House
• Modeling of Mbari Figures in Termite Clay or "Yam"
• Scapegoat Figure of Mbari House or "Ugly Child"
• Ala (Earth Goddess)
• Amadioha (Thunder God) & His Wife
• Secular Side of Mbari House with Childbirth Scene
• Okpangu & Scene of Leopard Attacking a Goat

ASANTE- GHANA

• Asantehene with the Golden Stool in Asipim Chair
• Asante Carver Finishing a Stool, Carving Workshop, Aharvi, Johnson Photo 2003
• Eight Black Stools of State
• Two Asipim Chairs
• Gold Weighing Equipment
• Gold Weights
• Gold Dust Boxes
• Lions, gold, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Johnson Photo
• Linguists with Their Staffs
• Linguist’s Staff, Wiseman’s Knot, Johnson Photo
• Ceremonial Sword with Proverbial Figures University of Iowa
• Gold Soul Disk
• Grave of Atawazudi, died 1969, Johnson Photo  
• Kente Cloth "gold dust" pattern
• Kente Cloth "Red Flowers" Pattern, National Museum, Accra, Johnson Photo 2003
• Kente Cloth, Otan Wo, National Museum, Accra, Johnson Photo 2003
• Kente Cloth, National Museum, Accra, Johnson Photo 2003
• Man & Six Wives Walking to a Funeral, National Museum, Accra, Johnson Photo 2003
• Akua'ba wood, National Museum of African Art, Wash. D.C., Johnson Photo
• Asante, Besease Shrine, Priest Side and Side for Singers, Ghana, Johnson Photo
• Asante, Besease Shrine, Two Roosters & Ram Designs, Johnson Photo, Begun 1850
• Asante, Besease Shrine, Wisdom Tree with Three Tortoises, Shrine Emblems, Johnson Photo
• Asante, Besease Shrine, Altar Side with Sheep Backbone Sacrifices, Johnson Photo
• Asante, Besease Shrine, Side with Talking Drums, Johnson Photo
• Asante, Bonwire, Kente Cloth Cooperative, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Bonwire, Kente Cloth Weaver, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Ntonso, Pounding Bark for Adinkra Cloth Dye, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Ntonso, Cooked Tree Bark for Adinkra Cloth Dye, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Ntonso, Applying Dye with a Comb to Adinkra Cloth, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Ntonso, Adinkra Cloth Dye Stamps, Johnson Photo 2003
• Asante, Ntonso,Cotton Adinkra Cloth Drying, Johnson Photo 2003
• Damango, Northern Village, Typical Round Houses, Johnson Photo 2003
• Damango, Storage Houses, Johnson Photo 2003
• Damango, Women pounding Cassava, Johnson Photo 2003
• Larabanga Mosque Mystic Stone, 1468, Johnson Photo 2003
• Larabanga Mosque Front Men's Entrance, 1468, Johnson Photo 2003
• Larabanga Mosque Women's Entrance, 1468, Johnson Photo 2003
• Transporting Slaves to a Port or Market, Lithograph, 1790
• Fort-Prison of St. George, Elmina, 1482, Johnson Photo 2003
• Fort-Prison of St. George, Elmina, 1482, Women's Cells, Johnson Photo 2003
• Fort-Prison of St. George, Elmina, 1482, Women's Cells and Ball and Chain, Johnson Photo 2003
• Diagram of Slave Ship Brookes, 18th Century
• Shipboard Slave Revolt, painting, 1851
• Large Dugout Canoes in Process, Axim, Johnson Photo 2003
• Boats and Harbor, Elmina, Johnson Photo 2003
• Elmina Boats, Johnson Photo, 2003
• Small Ebony Dugout Canoe, Ensima, Johnson Photo

BAMANA - MALI

• Boli, mixed media, Musée de l'homme, Paris, Johnson Photo
• N'tomo Society, wood, seeds, cowry shells, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Johnson Photo
• N'tomo Society, wood, National Museum of African Art, Wash. D.C., Johnson Photo
• Komo Society, wood, quills, mud, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Johnson Photo
• Chi Wara Dancers in the Big Field, wood, raffia, Imperato Photo
• Chi Wara Headdress, wood, Imperato Photo
• Chi Wara Headdresses, wood, Art Institute, Chicago, Johnson Photo
• Roan Chi Wara Headdress, wood, de Menil Collection, Houston, Johnson Photo
• Roan Chi Wara Headdress, wood, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Johnson Photo,
• Chi Wara Headdresses, wood, Nat. Mus. Of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Chi Wara Headdress, wood, Nat. Mus. Of African Art, Washington, D.C., Johnson Photo
• Chi Wara Headdress, wood, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Johnson Photo

SENUFO - IVORY COAST

• "Firespitter Mask"
• "Firespitter Mask" wood, Art Institute, Chicago, Johnson Photo
• Tyekpa Society Funerary Figures for Mother of Tyekpa
• Hornbill, "Bird of the poro" helmet mask, painted wood, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Johnson Photo
• Leopard Transformation Costumes
• Ox Nasolo in the Sacred Grove

BOBO - UPPER VOLTA

• Leaf Costume for purification rites and spirit of Do

  
  BWA - BURKINA FASO

• Hawk Mask Stanford Art Museum, Palo Alto, Johnson Photo

KUBA - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Kuba King Kot a Mbweeky III

  WODAABE - NIGER

• Wodaabe woman with facial scarification and jewelry
• Woman Donning Jewelry for Geerewol Ceremony
• Woman Decorating a Calabash with Protective Design
• Women in Finest Attire Looking at Calabash Displays
• Male Geerewol Dancers in Ostrich Plumes With Women Judges
• Male Geerewol Dancer Applying Makeup
• Male Geerewol Dancer Showing Teeth and Eye Movements
• Male Geerewol Dancers Showing Charm
• Male Geerewol Dancers Dancing with Ostrich Plume Headdresses
• Male Leather Talisman Diagram
• Male Leather Talisman To Repel Bad Luck

MAKONDE - TANZANIA

• Makonde Helmet Mask, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Johnson Photo

LUBA - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Female Power Figure with Snail Shells, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Johnson Photo

KONGO - CONGO

• Power figure Mbumba Maza, Musée de l'homme, Paris, Johnson Photo
• Nail Power Figure, Naoki, wood, nails, mirror, etc., Phoebe Hearst Museum, Berkeley, Johnson Photo
• Nail Oath-Taking Image, Nkisi n'kondi, De Young Museum, San Francisco, Johnson Photo
• Power figure 19th c. Munich, Johnson Photo
• Two headed Power figure of a Dog, wood, nails, 19th c. Berlin, Johnson Photo
• Another view of Two headed Power figure of a Dog, wood, nails, 19th c. Berlin, Johnson Photo
• Leopard Claw Bonnet, Mup Lisbon, Johnson Photo

KONGO - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Power Figure, wood, cloth, gun powder, etc. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Johnson Photo

  SONGYE - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Power Figure 19th c. Berlin, Johnson Photo

  PENDE - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

• Mbangu Face Mask, Horniman Museum, London, Johnson Photo

  WOYO - ANGOLA

• Power Figures (Nkisi) Lisbon, Johnson Photo

  YOMBE - ANGOLA

• Power Figure, Nkisi, Lisbon, Johnson Photo

LUMBO - WEST CONGO

• Power Figure, horn, wood, metal, beads, etc., Musée de l'homme, Paris

VILI - CONGO

• Power Figure of a Standing Man, cloth, wood, etc. Berlin, Johnson Photo

AFRICAN-AMERICAN - NEW YORK

• Protective Household Fetishes, Museum of Natural History, New York, Johnson Photo

MASANGO - GABON

• Reliquary Figure with Basket of Bones, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Johnson Photo

SHAKE - GABON

• Bwitti Cult Figure, brass, wood, copper, Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Johnson Photo

KOTA - GABON

• Bwitti Bronze Image, New Orleans Museum of Art, Johnson Photo