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List of illustrations

  • Senufo roan antelope masquerader of the Noumoussoba hunters’ association
  • Three Bwa masqueraders
  • Art Institute of Chicago, installation view of Arts of Africa (Gallery 137)
  • Art Institute of Chicago, installation view of Arts of Africa (Gallery 137)
  • Dance Staff (Oshe Sàngó)
  • Container (Opón Igede)
  • Pair of Headdresses (Tyi Wara Kunw)
  • Procession of the Tyi Wara
  • Afrique Occidentale–Danseurs Miniankas–Fétiches des Cultures
  • A Cape pangolin (Smutsia temminckii)
  • Antelope headdress
  • Gwomba, dance of the agrarian cults
  • Headband, Earrings, and Pair of Clasps
  • Bracelets
  • Qur’an Box Pendant
  • Equestrian and Four Figures
  • Fragment of a Kneeling Figure
  • Male Figure
  • Female Figure
  • Female Figure (Bateba Phuwe)
  • Bird Figure (Lumbr)
  • Sib Tadjalté, a diviner and healer, in his shrine room, village of Kouekouera, Burkina Faso
  • Plank Mask (Luruya)
  • Masqueraders and musicians parading through a village, Burkina Faso
  • Male Face Mask (N'Tomo)
  • Helmet Mask (Kono Kun)
  • A Kono performance among the Senufo, Bobo-Dioulasso, Berkina Faso
  • Zoomorphic Figure (Boli)
  • A Kono mask and a zoomorphic boli power object
  • Helmet (Sigi Kun)
  • Helmet Mask (Kponyungo)
  • A kponyungo performance at a funeral in Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire
  • Door (Korugo)
  • Female Caryatid Drum (Pinge)
  • Caryatid drum and drummer at a funeral, Katiali, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Lidded Box
  • Lidded Box
  • Male Figure
  • Edisibowei’s shrine
  • Carved figure of Odewei
  • Isobowei in his shrine
  • A shrine for Benaaghe
  • Carved figure
  • Female Headdress (Nimba, D’mba, or Yamban)
  • Baga Buluñits d’mba performance in the village of Monchon, Guinea
  • Helmet Mask (Banda or Kumbaruba)
  • Performance of the costumed banda headdress among the Baga Mandori, Guinea
  • Shrine Figure (a-Tshol or Mbëlëkët)
  • A clan elder with two of his tshol figures in front of his shrine in a village among the Baga Sitemu, Guinea
  • Face Mask
  • Face Mask
  • Female Helmet Mask (Ndoli Jowei)
  • Masqueraders of the Bundu (or Sande) association I Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Male Face Mask (Zauli)
  • Male Face Mask (Zamble)
  • Female Face Mask (Gu)
  • Face Mask
  • Face Mask
  • Face Mask
  • Face Mask
  • Female Face Mask (Ndoma)
  • Masquerader in a Gbagba performance in the village of Kami, Côte d’Ivoire
  • Figural Staff
  • Figural Staff, detail of topmost figure
  • Female Figure (Akua’ba)
  • A Ga girl in Addah (Adda; now Ghana)
  • Pectoral Disk (Akrafokonmu)
  • Attendant to Nana Kwasi Akuffo, the Akroponghene (King of Akropong)
  • Figural Plaque
  • Carving of tusk, detail
  • Niyu altar, Juny compound, Benin City, May 1891
  • Carved Tusk
  • Veranda Post (Ã’pó Ã’gògá)
  • Three figural posts in ÃŒkéré, Nigeria
  • Kneeling Maternity Figure (Ère Ojúbo)
  • Kneeling Maternity Figure (Ère Ojúbo), rear view
  • Kneeling Female Figure (Olúmèye)
  • Tapper with Supplicant and Hunter (ÃŒróké Ifá)
  • Tapper with Maternity Figure (ÃŒróké Ifá)
  • Babaláwo Kolawole Ositola beginning a divination session in the Porogun quarter of the town of ÃŒjèbú-Ode, Nigeria
  • Figural Staff (Ã’gó)
  • Headdress (Àgó Ègúngún Ode)
  • Egúngún masquerade, Abéòkúta, Nigeria
  • Headdress (Igi Gèlèdé)
  • Epa Headdress (Jagúnjagún)
  • Crown (Adé Ilèkè)
  • The king (ògògá) of ÃŒkéré, Èkìtì, Oníjagbó Obasorò Alówólódù, and his son
  • Royal Tunic (Èwù Ilèkè) and Coronet (Akoro)
  • Royal Tunic (Èwù Ilèkè), back
  • Crest Masks
  • Figure Screen (Duein Fubara)
  • Face Mask (Agbogho Mmuo)
  • Stool
  • Crest Mask (Ngambak)
  • Female Figure
  • An autumn celebration among the Ham people in the village of Nok, Nigeria
  • Portrait of Metang, the 10th King of Batufam
  • Commemorative figures of kings and queens in front of the royal palace in Batufam, Cameroon
  • Male Face Mask (Chihongo)
  • Full Chihongo character wearing a knitted fiber costume and characteristic broad skirt made from fibers
  • Female Face Mask (Mwana Pwo)
  • Portrait of a young Chokwe woman
  • Half-Length Figure (Eyema Byeri)
  • Head (Angokh Nlo Byeri)
  • Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
  • Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
  • Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)
  • Two minkisi minkondi and one zoomorphic power figure in the shape of a two-headed dog, in village in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Helmet Mask (Kholuka or Mbala)
  • A masquerader performing during an initiation ritual, near Kasongo Lunda, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Headrest (Musawa or Musau)
  • Drinking Horn
  • Chair (Chitwamo or Njunga)
  • Chair (Chitwamo or Njunga), detail
  • Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola)
  • Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), back
  • Helmet Mask (Bwoom)
  • Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash)
  • Helmet Mask (Mukenga)
  • Funeral effigy with mukenga mask among the Ndengese people, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Male Caryatid Stool
  • Face Mask (Kifwebe)
  • Male Figure (Singiti)
  • A chief seated on a caryatid stool and flanked by three ancestor figures, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Mask (Idimu)
  • Wooden framework with a display of ivory and wooden masks during an initiation into the Kindi grade of the Bwami association, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Lidded Box
  • Portrait of a woman wearing the popular halo coiffure, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Face Mask
  • Headrest (Isicamelo or Isigqiki)
  • Umpanda: King of the Amazulus
  • Headrest (Isicamelo)
  • Isicamela (Zulu Headrest)
  • Studio portrait of a Zulu man, Mariannhill Mission, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Young Zulu Men Dressing Their Hair
  • Figure Posts, details
  • Figure Posts
  • Figural Container
  • Woman wearing a saif malik mask, Muscat, Oman
  • Helmet Mask (Lipiko)
  • A lipalipanda player and a lipiko masquerader entering the village of Matambalale, Mozambique
  • Lidded Container
  • Unobadula (Unobhadule), the Wood Carver
  • Snuff Container
  • Snuff Container
  • Bound Manuscript: The Miracles of Mary (Te’amire Maryam): the Story of Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
  • Christ and Mary Enthroned from Bound Manuscript: The Miracles of Mary (Te’amire Maryam)
  • The Covenant of Mercy from Bound Manuscript: The Miracles of Mary (Te’amire Maryam)
  • Triptych Icon
  • Triptych icon with side panels closed
  • Calabash
  • Altar for Sàngó with different containers, ÃŒdòfin, ÃŒgbàná, Western Nigeria
  • Circular Divination Tray (Opón Ifá)
  • Altar for the Inner Head (ÃŒborí) with Container (Ilé-Orí)
  • The king (dejì) of Àkúré in full regalia, Àkúré, Nigeria
  • Map of Africa: Cultures and Locations
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Speaking of Objects sheds new light on the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of the traditional arts of Africa by focusing on works that exemplify significant styles, display a high degree of artistic achievement, and also prompt stories from and about their makers....
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Acknowledgments
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Note to the Reader
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Although scholarly investigations of the arts of Africa began more than a century ago, occupying a space between the disciplines of anthropology and art history, African artworks typically were not integrated...
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Northern Africa and the Sahel
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Cat. 1: Of Crests, Farmers, and Antelopes
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Coastal West Africa
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Cat. 17: Of Figures, Spirits, and Shrines
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Central Africa
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Cat. 51: Of Masks, Men, and Women
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Eastern and Southern Africa
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Cat. 68: Of Pillows, Cattle, and Curios
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Before the twentieth century, an emphasis on Eurocentric theories led many Western anthropologists and art historians to regard the stylized forms of indigenous African art as “primitive” and a failed attempt to imitate nature...
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Africa: Cultures and Locations
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