Richard Meyer Gallery African Art Collection
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- "Wasesile Wise Kuboku"
- 19th century
- 19th century antique Mexican retablo
- 19th century Mexican antique retablo
- Ada
- Adan
- Adan ancestor statue
- Adan People
- Adan Vodun Altar Figure
- Adangbe
- Ade
- Adja-gbé
- afircan artifact
- Afo
- Afo dance crest
- Afo People of Nigeria
- africa fetish
- african
- African Antique
- african antiques
- african art
- african artifact
- african artifacts
- african atifact
- african barber shop sign
- African barbershop sign
- african couple
- african dance
- African Divination
- african fetish
- african fetish figure
- african fetish sculpture
- african guardian sculpture
- african headdress
- African Igbo Alusi Shrine Figure
- african mark
- african mask
- african maternity figure
- african maternity sculpture
- african maternity statue
- african power figure
- african sculpture
- african shrine figure
- african spoon
- African staff
- african statue
- african textile
- african textiles
- African Tribal Equestrian Figure
- african zoomorphic mask
- afrifcan art
- Agbogho Mmwo
- Agni
- Agni Baoule
- akan
- akan female figure
- Akan fertility figure
- Akan People
- akan sculpture
- Akié
- Aklama
- Aklama fetish
- Akyé
- Aloalo
- Alunga
- Alunga mask
- alushi
- Alusi
- Alusi Guardian Spirit
- alusi shrine figure
- Amadou Bouaflé
- Ambete
- Ambete power figure
- Ambete Reliquary Male Figure
- Ambete Reliquary Male Figure Large
- Anago
- ancestor
- ancestor chief figure
- ancestor figure
- ancestor future
- Ancestor Mongo
- ancestor statue
- Ancestor Worship
- Ancestral Demon
- Ancestral Female and Male Figures with extensive scarification
- ancestral figure
- Ancestral Figures
- Ancestral Worship
- and the Role of Women as Mothers
- Angola
- Antelope
- antelope mask
- anti sorcery
- antique mexican retablo
- antique reliquary
- antique retablos
- art
- artifacts
- Asante Kingdom
- Asante people from Ghana
- ashante
- Ashanti
- Asye Usu
- Asye Usu Wild Bush Spirits
- Attie
- Attie Female Medicinal Figure
- attie maternity
- Attie People of Côte d'Ivoire
- Attie Sculpture
- Atyé
- Avenge Innocent People
- Avenger
- Avenger Figure
- avian mask
- bakongo
- bakongo fetish
- bakongo mask
- Bakongo nkisi
- bakongo sculpture
- Balega
- Bamana
- Bamana staff
- Bambole
- Bamileke
- Bamileke Ndop
- Bamileke Ndop Prestige Cloth
- Bamileke stool
- Bamum
- Bamun
- Baoule people of Côte d'Ivoire
- Baoulé
- barber shop sign
- barbershop sign
- Basikasingo
- Bassa
- Bassa People
- baule
- Baule art
- Baule Blolo Asye Usu Divination Figures
- Baule chief
- Baule female
- Baule Female Blolo Bla (Spirit Wife Figure) Sculpture
- Baule Goli
- Baule Goli pulley
- Baule male
- Baule Male Blolo Divination Figure
- Baule Mask
- Baule maternity figure
- baule monkey mask
- Baule oracle box
- Baule Paternity
- Baule pulley
- Baule sculpture
- baule waka-sona
- Bembe
- Bembe / Béembé Female Kitebi Power Figure
- Bembe / Béembé Kitebi Power Figure
- bembe biteki
- Bembe figure
- Bembe Kitebi Fetish Figure
- Bembe maternity figure
- Bembe sculpture
- Benin
- Benin / Togo
- Bimbi
- Bini
- Bini mask
- bird mask
- bishimba
- Biteki
- black iron staff
- Blessed Mother
- Blolo Bian
- Blolo Bla
- Boa
- Boa Mask
- board mask
- bone statuette
- Boyo
- brian's collection
- bronze staffs
- Bukota
- Bukota Society
- Bulu
- Bulu Male Monkey Figure
- Bulu Male Monkey Statue
- Bulu mask
- Bulu People
- Bundu Society
- burkina faso
- Butoka Society
- Butti
- Buyu
- Buyu / Basikasingo Mask
- Bwame Society
- Bwami
- Bwami Initiation statuette
- Bwami Society
- Béembé
- Béembé / Bembe
- Béembé / Bembe Nkisi Power Figure
- Béembé / Bembe People
- cameroon
- carved monkey
- carved wood spoon
- ceremonial textile
- chamba ×
- Chamba art
- Chamba Sculpture
- charm for power and strength
- childbirth
- Childbirth Labor Charm
- circumcision
- Colon
- Colonial Carving
- Colonial Figure
- conflicts)
- congo
- Congo DRC
- crocodile
- cubist mask
- Cult of Ibeji
- Cult of Twin Worship
- Cult of Twins
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Côte d'Ivoire / Liberia
- Dahomey
- Dan
- Dan / Guere
- Dan art
- Dan avian mask
- Dan bird mask
- Dan Bu Gle Mask
- Dan Dean Gle Mask
- Dan female sculpture
- Dan Ge Gon Avian Mask
- Dan Guéré People
- dan mask
- Dan People
- Dan Ritual "Spoon for a Generous Woman"
- Dan sculpture
- Dan Spoon
- Dan We People
- Dan Wobe People
- Dan Yacuba People
- Dan Zakpai Runner Mask
- Dan ZakpeI Mask
- dance crest
- dance mask
- Dean Gle
- Dean Gle Mask
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Demon
- Demon Mask
- Depositories of the Collective Memory of the Clan
- Dispenser of Justice
- Divination
- divination box
- Divination Figures
- Divination Objects
- Divinatory Ritual
- Divinatory Ritual of Ifa
- Divine Mother
- djelalou zaouli
- Dogon
- Dogon Antelope Mask
- Dogon Dyodyomini
- Dogon mask
- Dogon Satimbe Mask
- Dogon Walu mask
- double face mask
- double mask
- DR Congo
- DRC
- DRC / Zaire
- DRC Congo
- Dyodyomini mask
- Earth Mother
- earth mother goddess
- Edan
- Edjo
- Edjo Forest Spirit
- Edjo Spirit
- Edjo warrior statuette
- Edo
- Egungun mask
- Ejagham
- Ejo sculpture
- Ekoi
- Ekoi headdress
- Ekpo
- Elder
- Elders Society
- Embodiment of the "Feminine Ideal"
- Epa Association
- equestrian
- Ere
- Ere couple
- Ere Ibedji
- ere ibeji
- Eshu
- Ewe
- Ewe Altar Figure
- ewe alter fetish
- Ewe Couple
- Ewe Female Shrine Figure
- Ewe Female Venavi "Twin" Figure
- Ewe fetish
- ewe figure
- Ewe Kingdom
- Ewe People
- Ewe sculpture
- ewe triplets
- Ewe twin figure
- Ewe twins
- Ewe Venavi
- Ewe Venavi Male Figure
- Ewe Venavi Twin Figure
- Ewe Venavi Twin Pair
- Ewe Voodoo culture
- Execution Figure
- Fang
- Fang Mask
- Fang Ngil
- Fang Ngil mask
- Fante
- Fante People
- Female Alusi
- Female Alusi Figure
- Female Ancestor
- female belly mask
- female effigy
- female fertility
- Female Figure
- Female Gender Roles
- female Mossi
- female shrine figure
- female twins
- female yoruba figure
- Feminine Beauty
- Feminine Ideal
- fertility
- fertility charm
- Fertility Doll
- fertility goddess
- fertility symbol
- fertility symbols
- fetish
- Fetish Aklama Ada
- fetish figure
- fetish sculpture
- fetish statue
- Fighting Witchcraft
- Figure
- fire
- Fire Mask
- Fire Mask Zakpei Ge
- Fire Prevention
- Fire Prevention Mask
- Fire Runner Mask
- Fon
- Fon Hohovi
- Fon Hohovi "Triplets" Memorial Figures
- Fon Hohovi Twin Pair Memorial Figures by The "Master of the Blue Shorts Carver"
- Fon Hohovi Twins
- Fon People
- Fon sculpture
- Fon Twins
- Forest Magic
- Forest Spirit
- Fulani style
- funeral mask
- funery pole
- Gabon
- Gabon Mask
- Gabon/ DRC Congo
- Gabon/ DRC Congo PROVENANCE
- Gabonese
- Gelede
- Gelede mask
- Ghana
- Gla Secret Society
- good fortune and prosperity
- grave post
- grebo
- grebo mask
- Grebo War / Conflict Mask
- guardian
- guardian sculpture
- Guardian Spirit
- Guere
- guere dance mask
- guere mask
- Gunye Ge Racer Mask
- Guro
- Guro Female Ancestor Figure
- Guro Mask
- Guro statuette
- Gurunshi
- Gurunsi
- Gurunsi Antelope Mask
- Gurunsi mask
- Guéré People
- hairdresser sign
- He is frequently called upon for issues of injustice and for court cases and legal issues and is considered the patron of police officers and court officials by many followers.
- headdress
- Hell Dwelling Spirits
- helmet mask
- helmut mask
- Hemba People
- Herbalists
- hohovi
- Hohovi Twins
- Holli
- Hope of being Cured of Illness
- horse
- horseman
- Household Shrine
- hunter
- Ibedji
- Ibedji couple
- Ibeji
- Ibeji Cult
- Ibeji Twins
- Ibibio
- Ibibio Idiok
- Ibibio Idiok Ekpo Mask
- Ibibio Maiden Mask
- Ibibio mask
- Ibibio People
- Ibo
- icon
- Ideal Man
- Ideal Woman
- Idealized Female
- Idealized Female Ancestor
- Idealized Femine Beauty
- Idealized Feminine Beauty
- idealized Male and Female Beauty
- Idealized Version of Dan Beauty
- Idimu
- Idiok Ekpo
- Idiok mask
- Idoma
- Idoma headdress
- Idoma Janus
- Idoma Janus Headdress
- Idumo
- Idumu
- Ifa
- Ifa Divination
- Igala
- Igala helmut mask
- Igala mask
- igbo
- Igbo Alusi
- Igbo Figure
- Igbo Headdress
- Igbo Ikenga
- Igbo Maiden Headdress
- Igbo Maiden Mask
- Igbo Maiden Mask with Bird Finial
- Igbo mask
- Igbo Peoples
- Igbo shrine idol
- Igbo statue
- Iginga
- Ijo
- Ijo mask
- Ijo People
- Ikenga
- ikin
- ikin divination
- Initiation
- Initiation Beggar Mask
- Initiation Figure
- initiation mask
- iron ritual staff
- ivory coast
- Janus
- Janus figure
- janus mask
- jewelry
- Judge
- judgement
- Justice Figure
- kaka
- kaka paternity figure
- Kakinga
- Kakongo
- Kakula
- Kakula shrine idol
- Kakungu
- Kakungu Figures
- Kasangu mask
- Kasungalala
- Katatora
- Katatora Oracle
- Kela
- Kela mask
- Kela Mongo Mask
- Kindi
- Kitebi
- kitebi figure
- Kola Nut Offering Figure
- Kongo
- Kongo / Bakongo Minkisi Nail Fetish
- Kongo / Yombe Nkisi Power Figure Chewing Munkwisa Root
- Kongo / Yombe Nkisi Warrior Figural Tableau
- Kongo Mask
- Kongo Nkisi
- Kongo People
- Kongo Power Figure
- Korhogo
- Koulango
- Koulango Maternity Statue
- Krahn People
- Kran
- Kran mask
- Kran Monkey Mask
- Kuba
- Kuba Female Ancestor Altar Figure
- Kuba mask
- Kuba People
- Kukungu Figure
- Kulango
- Kulango couple
- Kulango statue
- Kwele
- Kwele mask
- Kwifo
- Kwifo Society
- La Mana Poderosa
- La Mana Poderosa Rare 19th Century Retablo
- Lamba
- Law Enforcement
- leather covered wood
- Lega
- Lega Bwami
- Lega Bwami Lega
- Lega Bwami figure
- Lega Bwami Idimu Miniature Mask
- Lega Bwami Idumo
- Lega Bwami Idumu Mask
- Lega Bwami Initiation Statuette Carved Bone RARE and Fine
- Lega Bwami Mask
- Lega Bwami Society Female Initiation Figure
- Lega Bwami Society Idumu Mask
- Lega Bwami Society Mask
- Lega Bwami Society Miniature Mask
- Lega Female Iginga Figure
- Lega Female Kakinga Figure
- Lega figure
- Lega Idimu Bwami Mask
- Lega Idimu Bwami Society Mask
- lega idumu
- Lega Idumu Bwami Society Mask
- Lega Iginga
- Lega Iginga Anthropomorphic Statuette
- Lega Iginga Bwami Society Figure
- Lega Iginga Figure
- Lega Initiation Figure
- Lega Kakula ka Mpito Figure
- lega Lukwakongo
- Lega Lukwakongo Bwami Miniature 6" Mask
- Lega Lukwakongo Mask
- Lega Lukwakongo Passport Maskette
- Lega Male Bwami Society Figure
- Lega mask
- Lega passport mask
- Lega Passport Miniature Mask
- Lega people
- Lega statue
- Lega statuette
- Legola
- Legola statue
- Liberia
- Liberia / Côte d'Ivoire
- lizard
- Losso
- Losso fetish
- luba
- Luba "The Ideal Femine Form" Female Statuette
- Luba ancestor figure
- Luba female
- Luba Female Fetish Figure
- Luba People
- Luba Shankadi
- Luba Shankadi Katatora Oracle / Divination Figure
- Luba statue
- Luba trace descent through the Female Line
- Lukwakongo
- Lukwakongo mask
- Lumbo
- Mabombolo mask
- madagascar
- magic
- magical healing power and medicine skills
- Mahafaly
- Maiden Headdress
- Maiden Mask
- Makonde
- Makonde Ancestral Ceremonial Stool
- Makonde mask
- Makonde Ndimu
- Makonde Ndimu Female Belly Mask
- Makonde Peoples in Tanzania.
- Makonde vestral mask
- MALE ALUSI
- MALE ALUSI FIGURE
- male fertility
- Mali
- Mambolo
- Mami Wata
- Mami Wata mask
- Martyr
- mask
- maskette
- maternity
- maternity figure
- maternity sculpture
- maternity statue
- Maternity Stool
- Matriarchy
- Mayombe
- Mayombe maternity
- Mbole
- Mbole Figure
- Mbole Ofika Bambole Figure
- Mbole Ofika Figure
- Mbole People
- Mbuya
- Mbuya mask
- Mediator between the Human and Spirit Worlds
- Medicinal Figure
- medicine
- Mende
- Mende female
- Mende helmut mask
- Mende mask
- Mende Sande
- Mende Sculpture
- mermaid
- Mermaid Goddess
- Metoko
- Metoko Butoka Society Mask
- metoko mask
- Metoko Nkudu Mask
- Metoko statue
- mexican retablos
- mexico
- Military Officer
- miniature mask
- Minkisi
- Minkisi are used to solve all sorts of problems (disease
- Mituku
- Mongo
- monkey
- monkey mask
- Monkey Passport Mask
- monkey statue
- Mossi
- Mossi Fulani Female Mask
- Mossi mask
- Mossi People
- Mossi sculpture
- mother
- Mother Goddess
- Mother love
- mother's labor
- mother's labor charm
- Mother's Love
- motherhood
- Motherhood Charm
- Motherhood Symbol
- motherly love
- Moukouji
- Mukudj
- Mukuyi Okuyi Mask
- Munkwisa Root
- Mwadi Mask
- mythical warrior
- Nago
- Nail Fetish
- Ndimu
- Ndop
- Nganga Ritual Practitioner.
- Ngbaka
- Ngbaka mask
- Ngbaka People
- Ngil mask
- ngoin
- ngoin mask
- ngulu
- Nigeria
- Nigeria Ogboni
- Nkisi
- nkisi fetish
- nkisi nkondi
- Nkisi Power Figure
- Nkisi statuette
- nkondi
- nkondi fetish
- Nkondi figure
- Nkudu
- Nkudu Mask
- Nunuma Board Mask
- nursing mother
- Nurturing
- Oath Taking object
- offering protection from evil and misfortune
- Ofika
- Ogboni
- Ogboni art
- Ogboni couple
- Ogboni Edan
- Ogboni Figures
- Ogboni seated figures
- Ogboni shrine figure
- Ogboni Society
- Ogboni Staff
- Ogoni People
- Okuyi mask
- Olorum
- or "Maiden Spirit"
- or 'Person in Wood'
- oracle box
- oracle figure
- oracle mice boxes
- Orisha
- Orisha Chango
- Orisha of Iron
- Orisha of War
- Orisha Ogun
- Orisha Shango
- Orisha Statuette
- Ouinnaila
- passport mask
- Paternity
- paternity figure
- Pende
- Pende art
- Pende figure
- Pende illness mask
- Pende mask
- Pende Mbangu Illness Mask
- Pende Mbuya
- Pende Mbuya Mask
- Pende sculpture
- Pende Western "Feminine Ideal" Sculpture
- phallic
- Phallic Form with simple facial features
- phallic symbol
- Police
- Police Officer
- Pombia
- Poro Piibele
- Poro Society
- Portrait
- post
- Pounou
- power
- power emblem
- power figure
- prestige cloth
- prosperity
- prosperity and abundance
- Protect From Misfortunes. Safety. Power. Fate. Good Karma.
- protecting childbirth
- Protecting Social Order
- protection against disease
- protection and judgement
- protection from black magic
- protection from evil
- protection from evil and misfortune
- Protective for Mothers
- protector and guardian
- provenance
- Provenance Professor Philip Gould
- Provenance: Ex collection Sidney and Gae Berman collected in 1960's
- Puna mask
- Punu
- punu art
- Punu figure
- punu funeral mask
- Punu Lumbo
- Punu Lumbo Figure
- Punu Mask
- Punu Miniature Mask
- Pygmy
- Pygmy People
- Pygmy People of Cameroon
- ram
- represents Power
- Republic of Zaire
- resist dye cloth
- retablos
- Rites
- Rites of Passage
- ritual medicine figure
- ritual staff
- Ritual Stool
- rooster
- Rooster Mask
- Saint San Sebastián Mártir
- Saint Sebastian
- Sakimatwematwe
- Salampasu
- Salampasu Kasangu
- Salampasu mask
- Salampasu People
- Salampasu warrior mask
- Sande
- Sande helmet
- Sande Society
- Sandogo Society
- Sapo People
- Satimbe mask
- Sceptre
- sculpture
- Sebastian is the Patron Saint of Athletes as well as the Patron Saint of Archers
- Senufo
- Senufo guardian sculpture
- Senufo maternity figure
- Senufo People
- Senufo Pombia
- Senufo Poro Piibele
- Senufo sculpture
- Shango
- Shango Offerings
- Shango Sceptre
- Shrine Fetish
- shrine figure
- shrine idol
- Sierra Leone
- Soko Mutu Hemba Mask
- Songye
- Songye mask
- Songye Nkisi
- Songye statuette
- Soothsayer
- soothsayers
- Sowei
- spider
- spider motif
- Spirit Intermediary Figure
- spirit warrior
- Spirits of Departed Ancestors
- Spiritual Avenger
- Spiritual Power
- St. Sebastian
- statue
- statuette
- sterility
- Suku People
- symbolizing Respect
- Tabwa
- Tabwa ancestor figure
- Tabwa statue
- Talisman of Fertility
- Tanzania
- Teke
- Teke People
- Temne
- Temne headdress
- Temne Headdress Mask for the Ordehlay (Ode-Lay) or Jollay Society
- Temne Mami Wata
- Temne Mask
- Tetela
- Tetela mask
- Tetela Mask
- Tetela Mwadi Mask
- textile
- textiles
- The "Master of the Blue Shorts Carver"
- The Hanged Man
- The Hung Man
- the Judge
- The Ofika are representations of a hanged prisoner
- Thomas Wheelock Collection
- Tikar
- tikar mask
- Tikar People
- Tikar statuette
- Togo
- Tribal Society
- Triplets
- Tsangui
- Tsangui mask
- Twin Cult
- twin figure
- twin statuette
- twin workship
- twin worship
- twins
- two-headed
- Tyepka Society
- Téké buti
- Urhobo
- urhobo Ejo
- Urhobo Male Figure
- Urhobo Omo Ogun Warrior Male Statue
- Urhobo People
- urhobo sculpture
- Used for Initiation and Funeral Rites
- used in Initiation and Funeral Rites
- Venavi
- Venavi twin
- Venavi twins
- Village Guardian
- Village Nail Fetish
- waka sona
- Waka Sran
- Walu Mask
- Warega
- warrior
- Warrior Culture
- warrior mask
- Water Goddess
- water goddess mami wata
- Water Spirit
- Water Spirit Mask
- We People
- Wee People
- west africa
- Winiama Board Mask
- Witch
- Witch Hunter
- Witchcraft
- Wobe
- Wobe People
- Wobé des Wé
- Womens Medicine
- wood fetish
- wood mask
- Yacuba People
- Yaka
- Yaka Biteki Fetish
- Yaka Khosi Figure
- Yaka tribe
- Yananyo
- Yaure
- Yaure mask
- Yela
- Yela ancestor figure
- Yela Ancestor Mongo Mask
- Yela mask
- Yela statue
- Yombe
- Yombe Guardian Figure
- Yombe Guardian Mediator Figure
- Yombe Nkisi Nkonde "Nail Fetish" Guardian Figure
- Yombe Nkondi Anti Sorcery Power Figure
- Yombe People
- Yombe Power Figure
- Yoruba
- yoruba art
- Yoruba Divination
- Yoruba Divination Bowl
- Yoruba Edan
- Yoruba Edan staffs
- Yoruba Egungun
- Yoruba Elder
- Yoruba Ere Ibeji Figure
- Yoruba Female Sculpture
- yoruba fetish
- Yoruba Gelede
- Yoruba gelede mask
- Yoruba Ibeji
- Yoruba Invocation Staff
- Yoruba Male Equestrian Figure
- Yoruba mask
- yoruba maternity
- Yoruba Maternity Divination Small Altar / Pedestal Stool
- Yoruba Maternity Figure
- Yoruba Maternity Shango Sceptre
- Yoruba Orisha
- Yoruba Priest
- yoruba sceptre
- Yoruba Shango Sceptre
- Yoruba staff
- Yoruba staffs
- Yoruba Statue
- Yoruba Tradition
- Young Woman's Spirit
- Zaire
- Zaire with PROVENANCE
- Zakpai
- Zakpai mask
- ZakpeI Mask
- Zakpel
- Zaouli
- Zaouli mask
- Zebu cattle long horn steer
- zela
- Zela People
- zoomorphic
- zoomorphic mask
- Zrabi Sehifla