3Africa

Nearly a thousand works from West and Central Africa, the Maghreb and Ethiopia, including Dogon and Djennenké sculpture, Benin and Ife metalwork and masks from Gabon and Cameroon.

In This Area

The Djennenké androgynous figure with raised arm

tenth to eleventh century

Plateau des collections, Africa section, near the top of the ramp

Dogon figure from the 1935 Sahara-Sudan mission

before 1935

Plateau des collections, Africa section