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Each short wooden cylinder is painted with an inlay on both circular face. One face is red, white and blue with brown dots. Other face in dark teal, black, yellow and white with brown dots.
Nguni (Nguni)
Wooden Cylinders (Pair)
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.70.1-2
Elaborately carved staff with, from the top: a male figure wearing Western-style clothes, with painted eyes, eyebrows, mouth, moustache, hat and clothes, sitting on a simple stool, resting his hands on his knees; a U-shaped snake on one side and a mortar on the other; a pair of a male and a female figure on either side (the male is standing on one leg, bending the other at the knee to make a triangle); a dark black spherical form; a row of three turtles on one side and two salamanders and a frog on the other; and finally three outstretched snakes (painted yellow, brown and red, respectively), one of them eating a small frog.
Kongo (Kongo (culture or style))
Staff
1900 – 1950
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.42
A wooden doll with two tiers made up of a head and body with no arms, legs or feet. Painted on the head is a face, hair, and a red headdress. The body has red and tan horizontal stripes on the top and bottom of the body with a cluster of red poppies in the middle.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kokeshi Doll
1925 – 1975
Gift of Harold W. Stevenson, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus in Psychology
2021/1.132
A wooden doll with two tiers made up of a head and body with no arms, legs or feet. Painted on the head is a face, hair, and red headdress. Painted on the body are red and black decorations.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kokeshi Doll
1925 – 1975
Gift of Harold W. Stevenson, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus in Psychology
2021/1.136
A wooden doll with two tiers made up of a head and body with no arms, legs or feet. Painted on the head is a face, hair, and red headdress. Painted on the body are red and green horizontal stripes on the top and bottom of the body, in the middle of the body are poppies.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kokeshi Doll
1925 – 1975
Gift of Harold W. Stevenson, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus in Psychology
2021/1.137
Naturalistic cow’s head of carved from wood with eyes cut from the bottoms of glass bottles. Natural cow horns are attached. Head is predominantly black with white triangle on forehead, red pigment surrounding eyes, red in interior of ears, white chin, and white dots on cheeks and in red ground around eyes. Horns are white, tipped in black; a fiber cord runs through its nostrils and around back of head.<br />
Bijogo (Bijogo)
Mask (vaca bruto, dugn'be type)
1925 – 1975
Gift of Avery Z. Eliscu
1984/1.273
A wooden doll of three tiers made up of a head and body with no arms, legs or feet. Painted on the head is a face, hair, and headdress of yellow and different shades of red. The second and third tiers make up the body and have yellow, black, and red decorations.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kokeshi Doll
1925 – 1975
Gift of Harold W. Stevenson, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus in Psychology
2021/1.134

Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Bwoom type mask
1890 – 1910
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1982/2.52
<style type="text/css"><!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> </style> A large numeral 4 that appears three-dimensional sits just off to the viewer&#39;s right, with numerous other 4&#39;s of different sizes spilling from behind and around it. The piece is shaded in gray and appears textured.
Gordon Newton (American (North American))
Bletchley Park Annex 4
2012
Gift of the Estate of Gordon Newton
2021/1.98
A wooden doll with two tiers made up of a head and body with no arms, legs or feet. Painted on the head is a face, hair, and a red headdress. The body is painted to look like it is wearing a red and yellow kimono with stripes red, black, and purple in the middle for the obi. You can see where the kimono begins and ends at the top and bottom of the body.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kokeshi Doll
1925 – 1975
Gift of Harold W. Stevenson, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus in Psychology
2021/1.135
Carved wooden decoy of a Pike fish; green along dorsal region with yellow underbelly, spots and flecks of yellow, white, and black.
Oscar Peterson
Pike Decoy
1923 – 1933
Gift of The Daniel and Harriet Fusfeld Folk Art Collectionn
2002/1.216
A pair of matching small wooden cylinders with cone tops. Dark brown with red line detail on top.
Nguni (Nguni)
Wooden Cylinders (Pair)
1800 – 1999
Gift of the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications in memory of Warren M. Robbins
2014/2.71.1-2
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