13 UMMA Objects
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Tabwa (Tabwa)
Thumb Piano/Plucked Idiophone (Kankobele)
1900 – 1984
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1984/2.50

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Royal Mask (Ngaady a Mwaash)
1900 – 1983
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1983/2.162
Cup in the shape of a human head. The neck extends downward and serves as the cup's base. Carved lines wrap around the base of the cup. There is a carved circular shape at the temples of the human head. The rim of the cup extends upward on top of the figure's head. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Palm Wine Cup
1900 – 1983
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1983/2.163
A wood box of semi-circular form, with a stylized form of a human face incised on the lid. The sides of the box, and around the face, are incised with geometric motifs, and two small holes are pierced in the lid and front of the box to fasten. The sides of the box are also covered with red powder. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Box
1867 – 1899
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.141
Standing bronze figure with recto/verso. The silhouette of the body is rectangular in shape. The heads on both side are simply rendered with rounded eyes and a pursed -lip mouth on one, a button nose on the other; bodies are supported by short legs; sides loosely suggest representations of male and female anatomy with side-by-side scallop shells suggesting a breasted chest on one side, an upward facing frog/toad in the phallus area on the reverse side.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Janus Bird (Oiseau Janus)
1973
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1987/1.160

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Bwoom type mask
1890 – 1910
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1982/2.52
Mask of a human figure. Embellished with presitious materials: dyed cloth, leopard skin, cowry shells, glass beads.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Mask (mwaash aMbooy)
1900 – 1985
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.143

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Dance costume (jacket)
1915 – 1925
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.185.1

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Dance costume (thigh cover)
1915 – 1925
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.185.2
Cylindrical vessel carved in the shape of a human head. The top of the head is designed with cross-hatching marks with a linear triangular design wrapped around the top of the figure's head. A hole is carved into the crown of the figure's head.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Pipe
1915 – 1925
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.184

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Dance costume (thigh cover)
1915 – 1925
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1985/1.185.3
Vertically positioned drum with cylindrical form. There is a face carved into the drum and underneath the face is a carved hand. Right above the hand is a rectilinear design, resembling interlocking boxes, wrapping around the circumference of the drum. Directly behind the hand is another geometric pattern resembling interlocking diamonds wrapping around the circumference of the drum.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Drum
20th century
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1983/2.171
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