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The Stanley Collection of African Art at the University of Iowa Museum of Art contains over 500 objects from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Use the popup menus for a category below to enter search criteria. If more than one criteria is selected, the system will search using "OR" (e.g., "Group" selected or "Type" selected). Click the 'Start Search' button to submit your search. For details on the reproduction rights to this material, refer to the copyright information at the Art and Life in Africa site. Database material last revised 2/01/99.

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Stanley Acquisition Number	001 008 013 014 025 026 041 043 044 045 046 047 049 050 051 052 053 054 057 144 145 147 153 154 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 165 170 171 172 177 178 179 181 182 183 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 195 196 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 210 211 212 213 214 216 217 218 219 220 222 223 224 225 226 228 229 230 233 235 236 237 238 239 240 241A 241B 241C 242 243 244 245 246 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 273 274 275 276 277 278 280 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291A 291B 291C 291D 291E 291F 292 293 294 295A 295B 295C 295D 295E 296 297 298 299 300 301 304 305 306 307 308 310 312 313 314 315 316 318 319 320 321 322 323 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 350 351 352 353 354 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 429 430 431 432 433 434 437 438 440 441 442 443 444 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 463 465 466 467 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 536 537 539 540 541 543 544 545 546 547 548 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619a 619b 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 699 701 704 705 706 708 711 712 715 716 717 726 729 733
Group	Anyang Anyi Asante Azande Babanki Baga Bali Bamana Bamileke Bamum Bangubangu Bangwa Bassa Baule Beembe Bemba Bembe Benin Kingdom Bete Bidyogo Biombo Boa Bobo Boyo Bullom or Sherbro Bushoong Bwa Cameroon Grasslands Chokwe Dan Ding Diomande Djenné Doci Dogon Ejagham Eket Ekoi Fang Fulani Giryama Guro Gurunsi Hehe Hemba Holo Holoholo Hunde Hunguna Ibibio Idoma Igala Igbo Ijo Jaba Kahe Kamba Kanyok Karagwe Katana Kel Kete Komo Kongo Kota Kran Kuba Kurumba Kusu Kuyu Kwele Kwere Lega Lele Liberia Lobala Lobi Lower Zaire Luba Luluwa Lunda Lwalwa Makere Makonde Malungu Mama Mambila Mangbetu Manja Mano Maravi Mbagani Mbala Mbole Mende Metoko Mitsogo Mossi Mumuye Nafana Ndengese Ngbaka Ngbandi Ngeende Nkanu Nuna Nyamwezi Ogoni Pare Pende Punu Salampasu Samo Senufo Shambaa Shilele Solongo Songo Songye Suku Tabwa Teke Togbo Toussiana unidentified Urhobo Vili Vuvi We Woyo Yaka Yaure Yombe Yoruba Zaramo Zigua Zombo
Country	Tanzania Guinea-Bissau Mali Burkina Faso Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire Cameroon, Gabon Sierra Leone Nigeria Angola, Congo (Zaire) Kenya Congo (Zaire) Ghana Angola Côte d'Ivoire Cameroon Congo Gabon Liberia Guinea-Conakry Mozambique
Type	animal axe bell bowl bowl, animal chair chair, throne cloth clothing comb comb, figure comb, figure, animal container container, animal container, figure container, head, animal costume cup cup, head doll, figure door drum, musical instrument figure figure, animal figure, body art figure, bowl figure, container figure, doll, toy figure, musical instrument figure, pipe figure, puppet figure, shrine figure, staff figure, twin hat head head, pottery, container head, shrine headrest jewelry ladle lock mask mask, animal mask, figure mask, figure, animal mortar musical instrument pestle pipe placemat post post, animal post, figure post, shrine pot lid reliquary, figure reliquary, head staff staff, figure stool tapper toy tray twin, figure weapon
Material	beads beads, hide beads, hide, fiber brass brass, beads clay cloth copper cotton cotton, lurex cotton, wool fiber hide, pigment, feathers horn iron ivory stone textile vegetable fiber wood wood, beads wood, brass wood, brass, clay wood, brass, copper wood, clay wood, clay, fiber wood, cloth wood, cloth, fiber, beads wood, copper wood, copper, brass wood, copper, fiber wood, cowrie shells wood, feather, brass, glass wood, feathers, cloth wood, fiber wood, fiber, cloth wood, fiber, copper wood, fiber, metal wood, fiber, pigment wood, gold wood, gold, iron wood, gourd wood, hide wood, hide, fiber wood, horn wood, horn, copper wood, horn, fiber wood, iron wood, iron, mirror, clay wood, metal wood, metal, beads wood, mirror wood, pigment wood, pigment, fiber
Function	abundance abundance, childhood abundance, everyday endeavor abundance, women's art death death, abundance, spirit death, abundance, women's art death, ancestor death, governance death, governance, initiation death, hunting death, initiation, power death, initiation, spirit death, religion death, religion, ancestor death, religion, women's art death, spirit death, spirit, abundance death, spirit, ancestor death, spirit, religion death, spirit, women's art death, status death, women's art death, women's art, divination death, women's art, spirit death. initiation divination divination, abundance divination, governance everyday endeavor everyday endeavor, death everyday endeavor, status governance governance, abundance governance, ancestor governance, death governance, death, ancestor governance, divination governance, everyday endeavor governance, healing governance, initiation governance, religion governance, spirit governance, status governance, status, women's art governance, women's art governance, women's art, ancestor governance, women's art, death healing healing, spirit initiation initiation, initiation, abundance initiation, abundance, death initiation, abundance, women's art initiation, death, governance initiation, divination initiation, governance initiation, healing initiation, performance initiation, religion, spirit initiation, spirit initiation, women's art initiation, women's art, healing marriage power power, women's art religion religion, abundance religion, abundance, status religion, ancestor religion, ancestor, performance religion, governance religion, healing religion, initiation religion, performance, spirit religion, spirit religion, spirit, abundance religion, spirit, power religion, status religion, women's art rule spirit spirit, abundance spirit, governance, women's art spirit, healing spirit, healing, power spirit, initiation spirit, power spirit, religion spirit, religion, performance spirit, sacred spaces, healing, power status status, status, death status, everyday endeavor status, governance status, healing status, initiation status, performance status, performance, governance status, women's art status, women's art, cultural exchange status, women's art, governance status, work women's art, abundance, divination women's art, governance
Style	East Africa Guinea Coast Southern Savannah Equatorial Forest unidentified Western Sudan
Substyle	West Atlantic Coast Niger River/ Cross River Lower Zambezi River Ubangi/ Uele Rivers Kwango/ Kwilu Rivers Eastern Guinea Coast Ogowe River Basin East Shore Lake Tanganyika Western Guinea Coast Eastern Ruvuma River/ Lake Malawi Sankuru/ Lualaba Rivers Lower Zaire River Cameroon Grasslands Benue River Valley Kasai/ Sankuru Rivers Eastern Tanzania Upper Niger River Basin Matrilineal Tanzania Manyema Kwango/ Cuanza Rivers Kenya Coast Upper Volta River Basin Lomami River/ Lake Tanganyika

 

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