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Many thanks to the National Museum of African Art and Bryn Mawr College Collections for providing images used in this website as well as on the workshop poster and program booklet.

Cache Sexe
Yoruba, Nigeria
Mace Neufeld and Helen Katz Neufeld '53 Collection of African and Oceanic Art
Bryn Mawr College Art and Archaeology Collection
Magic Figure
Songe, Zaire
Mace Neufeld and Helen Katz Neufeld '53 Collection of African and Oceanic Art
Bryn Mawr College Art and Archaeology Collection
Tyilo-Tyilo
Louis Maqhubela, born 1939, South Africa
1997
Gouache on paper
H x W: 74.5 x 56 cm (29 5/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Museum purchase
98-19-2
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
Photograph by Franko Khoury
Double figure (akua’ba)
Asante peoples
Ghana
Early – mid 20th century
Wood, glass beads, plant fiber, metal
H x W x D: 34.8 x 15.3 x 6.6 cm (13 11/16 x 6 x 2 5/8 in.)
Acquisition grant from the James Smithson Society and museum purchase
87-4-1
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
Photograph by Franko Khoury
Contradictions of Joy
Ali Omar Ermes, born 1945, Libya
1993
Acrylic and ink on paper
H x W: 121.5 x 153.4 cm (47 13/16 x 60 3/8 in,)
Purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program
96-22-1
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
Photograph by Franko Khoury
Face mask (panya ngombe)
Pende peoples
Democratic Republic of Congo
Early-mid 20th century
Wood, pigment, plant fiber
H x W x D: 24.1 x 56.5 x 10.1 cm (9 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 4 in.)
Museum purchase
92-6-1
National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian Institution
Photograph by Franko Khoury

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