Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Carved divination bowl

1880-1915

Divination bowl carved with leopard and female figures

1851-1920

Calabash rattle, Nigeria, 1851-1920

1851-1920

Carved wooden effigy

1851-1930

Carved wooden staff

1851-1900

Carved wooden figure of kneeling woman holding child on her back

1880-1920

Carved wooden effigy (Ntutu Agwli) in the form of a stylized bird

1890-1930

Carved wooden figure

1880-1920

Bronze figurated staff, Yoruba, West Africa, 1801-1920.

1801-1920

Wooden divination effigy

Leather container covered entirely with cowrie shells, Nigeria, 1850-1920

1851-1920

Carving of human figure

1880-1910

Vernacular Ntutu Agwu group effigy

1870-1930

Effigy, carved wood

1880-1930

Carved wooden staff or cult-stave

1851-1900

Pottery burial vase

1900-1924

Small globular container made of vellum with 2 loop handles and third on stopper

1880-1930

Brass staffs with male and female figures, Yoruba Nigeria, 1870-1970

1870-1970

Cupping horn

1880-1920

Iron knife with cylindrical wooden handle

1851-1900

Iron bell with long handle

1851-1900

Amulet worn by a derstee of the small pox spirit

Symbol of the Yoruba god Shango in the form of iron bar zig-zagged to represent lightning

1890-1920

Wooden Koranic board with two leather amuletic cases, Nigeria, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Steel tweezers used by Medicine Man

1871-1920

Amuletic girdle of leather with rectranular and triangular amulet cases attached

1880-1920

Carved wooden figure of Eshu(?), Yoruba, maker, So

1890-1935

Small pair of iron forceps with twisted metal handles looped at ends

1880-1920

7 wooden sticks used as smallpox juju

1920-1946

Brass statue of kneeling male figure holding object in hands with loop on forehead

1851-1900

Wooden effigy of female figure

1890-1930

Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of female form

1890-1930

Stitched leather amulet

1880-1910

Cane arm splint, Ibo people, Nigeria, c. 1871-1908.

1871-1908

Amulet of the god Eshu

1880-1900

Carved Yoruba ritual bowl, Nigeria, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Carved wooden effigy or Ibedji, typical Yoriba sta

1871-1910

Metal rattle from a staff

Amulet cases of leather

1880-1920

Head band from Ibibio medicine man display

1920-1927

Vase-shaped tobacco pipe bowl with angular stem socket

1871-1920

Shaman's cloak, Nigeria, c. 1880-1920.

1880-1920

Divination bowl, Nigeria, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Robb The Most Powerful Ointment with its cardboard box packaging

1970

One metal edan head on iron spike with chain links attached to top

1701-1920

Wooden figure representing the god Eshu, Nigeria, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Ibedji figure representing a dead male twin, Yoruba people, Nigeria, 1871-1910

1871-1910

Ibedji figure representing a dead female twin, Yoruba people, Nigeria, 1871-1910

1871-1910

Carved epa mask, Nigeria, North Africa, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Mask with superstructure of female nursing child

1870-1925