top decorated with symmetrical design with scrolling edges; some cutouts in various shapes (teardrops, circles, quatrefoil, bar) inlaid with gold stamped with repeating circular patterns on front and back of comb; tapering teeth — Hair comb, about 1800
Swahili

G254

large door; carved jambs, lintel and central post on door; two complete rows remaining of large iron fasteners on door surface; only two remain in lower row; iron chain, plate and securing pin at top right center of door; four pins along center post on door — Door, mid 19th century
Swahili

G242

folding design with hinge in center--can be unfolded into X shape or folded flat into paddle shape; saddle-like, when unfolded, with handle with ovoid-shaped serrated metal spatula at end; each side of seat carved with star-asterisk designs in regular geometric grid; medium patina — Coconut-grater stool, mid 20th century
Swahili

G254

top carved with stylized standing woman in front of shield shape, decorated with zigzags and lines on front, and triangles, zigzags and lines on back; geometric openwork top section flanked by smaller female figures — Hairpin, mid 20th century
Kwere

G254

Two piece construction with top section attached to a ringed staff; figure seated on a small stool on top of a bowl-shaped element with four-sided element inscised with geometric patterns below — Staff, 19th-20th century
Swahili

G254

large vessel with rounded base; flaring outward to pointed shoulder and inward to slightly raised mouth rim; shades of mottled black and grey; three red-orange semicircles above shoulder — Beer pot, mid 20th century
Nyakyusa

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circular basket and removable lid; lower half of basket and top half of lid are brown herringbone weave; upper half of basket and lower half of lid are flat strips of dark brown bark with carved designs; band on basket is larger, with strip of bark attached on inside for lid to fit onto; designs are rectangles filled with lines, half-circles, diamonds; lid is inverted and slightly shorter version of basket — Corn or millet storage basket, late 19th century
Zanaki

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tan hide skirt; white beading along BC and in C; blue and white striped beaded design at TC; blue and white striped beading at T PR; blue, white and red checkered pattern in beadwork at B PR and B PL — Ceremonial skirt, early 20th century
Iraqw

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tan hide; blue and red half-moon shapes in beadwork form a repeating pattern — Back skirt, c. 1925
Mbugwe

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wood handle with inlaid metal and ivory decoration, including metal circles and ivory rectangles; incised decoration on blade; rear edges of blade decorated. [Culture given as 'Malawi - FLB 03/15/2016] — Prestige Axe, 20th century
Tanzania

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female figure; no face; six holes along top, each side of headdress; horizontal indentation front bottom of headdress — Mwana nya nghiti, 20th century
Zaramo

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Female figure at top, with short hairstyle; shaft has four pairs of carved rings — Staff, 19th-20th century
Tanzania

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stakelike object with make head and torso; head with small inlaid eyes is completely removable; torso twined with fibers and animal hide — Fetish Container, c. 1920-1930
Pare

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figure with three bands of beads around neck; blade through chest, wide edge in front — Prestige Battle Axe, 20th century
probably Fipa or Rungu

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hollow gourd with rope and leather wrapped around center; carved wooden stopper of figure with arms bent in opposite directions and beads (red, yellow, orange) wrapped around waist and neck — Gourd with Stopper, late 19th-early 20th century
Zaramo

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Staff with ball on top; head below; four-sided protruding lobe below head with incised grid pattern — Staff, 19th-20th century
Rungu

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Staff with triangular body and human head with shell eyes and whitened mouth — Staff, 20th century
Fipa

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Bald, standing figure on top of straight staff; incised rings with row of zig-zags below near top — Staff, 19th-20th century
Pare

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a wooden club with a nearly cylindrical shaft slightly flaring at one end, bending sideways, then ends into an almost spherical, hyper-stylized head; a short cylindrical crest is tangent to the head on the opposite side, and figures a pointed nose on one side, and a bunch of hair on the other; the ears are large and semi-circular, the eyes hardly visible, the mouth is a short slit perpendicular to an edge in the axis of the nose; a protuberance juts out on the throat under the chin; arrived with black metal mount — Dance Wand (?), c. 1920-1930
Gogo

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Thick shaft with two pairs of lobes; standing female figure with long hair on top, standing on three-leafed platform — Staff, 19th-20th century
Zaramo

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Staff with head on top; head has very high ears, uneven eyes, hairstyle sticking up in front with a bald, pointed back of head; staff decorated with incised rings and diagonal lines — Staff, Date Unknown
Gogo

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Straight, undecorated shaft with abstracted head at top; head has very small incised eyes and mouth and flat forehead with point at back of head — Staff, Date Unknown
Hehe

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Staff with flat, round element on top — Staff, Date Unknown
Kerewe

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rounded head with thin coat of dark slip; friendly features with eyes mostly open, broad nose, wide open, smiling mouth, and prominent chin; eyebrows and chin adorned with human hair attached with wax; holes around base of neck — Mask, 1960s
Makonde

G254

hide belt with glass beadwork; red, green and one blue triangle design, with white triangles alternating in between; linear rainbow pattern at one end of belt — Belt, c. 1950
Maasai

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tan hide skirt; linear beaded design at bottom in repeating pattern of 'V' shapes — Skirt or cape, c. 1960
Maasai

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bow-legged figure with both hands held to chest; decorated face with geometric designs and five piercings in each ear; on top of its head is an oblong hat with tail — Standing Figure, late 19th century
Makonde

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Seated figure attached to center of shaft, resting its toes on a platform; top metal section has threaded end — Staff, Date Unknown
Nguni

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Prestige Battle Axe, 20th century

Kwere or Luguru

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Mask, late 19th-early 20th century

Zaramo

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Grave Post, early 20th century

Zaramo

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Zither, late 19th-early 20th century

Zaramo

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