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    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Power Figure

    Date: 
    early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, cloth, feathers, hide, fiber, and rattan

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.19
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Female Figure

    Date: 
    late 19th–early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, leather, fiber, pigment, and encrustation

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.33
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Male Figure

    Date: 
    late 19th–early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood and metal

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.96
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Female Marionette

    Date: 
    early to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, cloth, and pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.426
    Culture: 
    Yaka or Suku
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Headdress Surmounted by a Male Figure

    Date: 
    early to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, cloth, plastic buttons, thread, and pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.432
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Masks
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Male Figure

    Date: 
    20th century, before 1954
    Medium: 

    Nauclea wood

    Accession Number: 
    1954.28.38
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Human Figure

    Date: 
    early to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood

    Accession Number: 
    2004.77.3
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Figural Slit Gong

    Date: 
    19th to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood

    Accession Number: 
    1964.76.8
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Musical Instruments
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Comb with a Mother and Child

    Date: 
    late 19th–early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.78
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Apparel/Costume
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Mask Surmounted by a Lizard-like Animal (Kholuka)

    Date: 
    early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, rattan, cloth, pigment, and leather

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.429
    Culture: 
    Yaka
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Masks
    Status: 
    On view