10 UMMA Objects
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An oval wooden face made of dark shiny wood with a textile braid of hair all around, wrapped tight to the head. The eyes are slightly shut and the mouth is open.
Dan
Face Mask
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.24
A hollow animal horn with a braided fiber attached through a hole towards the horn's tip. Various linear designs, including intersecting lines, run along the bow of the horn in addition to concentric circles and zigzag lines.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Drinking horn
1875 – 1885
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1984/2.33
This image depicts a closeup view of a section of a plant's stem positioned against a dark background.  
Karl Blossfeldt (German (culture or style))
Equisetum hiemale
1928
Gift of Eeta Gershow
2014/2.5

Basket
20th century
Gift of Dede and Oscar Feldman
2019/1.272
A vertically positioned drum with two handles. The stem between the handles resembles a coil or spiral shape consisting of layered rings. The bottom half of the drum, below the handles, consists of a linear design of concentric lines. The top portion of the drum, above the handles, consists of geometric patterns. Leather skin is stitched to the top of the drum.
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Drum
1875 – 1885
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1984/2.35

Zulu
Ceremonial Hat (isicholo)
20th century
Gift of Dede and Oscar Feldman
2019/1.276

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Pel ambish
1880 – 1890
Gift of the Friends of the Museum of Art in honor of Evan M. Maurer
1988/2.1
This photograph depicts a closeup view of a plant against a light background.  
Karl Blossfeldt (German (culture or style))
Symphytum officinale
1928
Gift of Eeta Gershow
2014/2.12

Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo culture))
Polychrome mask
Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation
1986/1.173
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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