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Dogon people, Mali, African

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Carved wooden chair. Animals and figures on back seat crest, stretchers, and front stiles. Brass nail heads form eyes on some animals and figures, also applied as decorative elements. The seat is skin/hide which still has some remaining hair. It has been stretched over the seat rail and tied with strips of gut or hide.
Jar with cover, both covered entirely with clay "spikes."
Figurative Shrine Vessel, Mwana people, or Cham people, or Longuda people, Nigeria, African, fired clay
Elaborate egungun costume of various layered, strips of colorful textiles, including velvet and indigo-dyed cloth, with applied, cut, white metal geometric elements that are sewn to the various pieces of the costume, the metal forms are incised with geometric patterns.