The Collection at the BMA

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Seated woman wearing Corn Maiden regalia including tableta headdress, looking at cell phone; adobe pueblo architecture in background with satellite dish, telephone line, and stylized cloud with falling raindrops.

Corn Maiden

On a red background, abstract figures in white and red stand around an African mask.

Cry Beloved Country

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Mask (mukenga or mukyeem)

Vertical woven paper basket with round mouth and square bottom, in Cherokee water pattern; paper dyed shades of blue, lavender, and black. Photograph of Tuckasegee River in central band; text written on paper weaving strips drawn from David Archimbault's speech to United Nations in response to Dakota Access Pipieline on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Lifeline

Abstract sculpture in bronze on a slate base

Two Forms in Echelon

An enormous and complex multi-figure painting set in an African-American beauty salon/beauty academy. Mirrors in the painting are outlined in glitter, which Marshall applies to the surface in a gel medium. The painting’s unstretched canvas surface has grommets running along its outer perimeter. The painting hangs on screws threaded through the grommets. The composition ends just short of the support’s outer edges.

School of Beauty, School of Culture

In this sweeping view of a Venetian canal with historic buildings on either side, gondolas laden with passengers are being steered by their gondoliers.

View of the Grand Canal

Unframed diptych, two separate 40X32 inch photographs

Mary Parker and Caela Cowan

Large round jar with foot, narrows slightly toward the bottom. Raised ridge around widest portion of vessel. Shoulder decorated with groups of angled and curved parallel incised lines; bottom half with incised geometric patterns. Reddish color with fire clouds.

Vessel

  • Bozo people, Jenne, Mali (also spelled Djenne), African
  • fired clay
Linguist Staff Finial (okyeame poma), Akan group, Asante people, Ghana, African, wood and gold leaf

Linguist Staff Finial (okyeame poma)

Hide shield attached by leather strips to oval wooden frame; vertical wooden handle on back; patterns in blue, white, black, ochre, red pigments.

Shield

Red rug and gun

Untitled