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Copper alloy lamp with handle in form of an ibex
3rd-5th century CE
Port Sudan
-British Museum
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Painted panels of a triptych
19th century
Ethiopia
-British Museum

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leather bookcase
containing stack of papers with Qur'anic text.
ca. 1846–71
Kano, Nigeria
-British Museum

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fragments of a temple relief depicting the goddess Isis, a king seated on a lion-throne, and a row of jackals above a row of stars.

Meroitic period, Sudan.
-British Museum
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Cap made of wool with silver gilt decoration and tassels.
19th century,
Ethiopia
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Brass helmet and cuirass of chain-mail
late 19th-early 20th century
Nigeria.

-British Museum
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silver
Khol container, Porte Koran (Xirsi), and comb
18th-19th century
Somalia

-Harn Museum of Art
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interior of a shipyard
construction of a native ship (Mtepe)

ca. 1900
Ukerewe Island
Tanzania

-Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
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gold armlets decorated with geometric designs, open work, and filigree work.

1825-1890
Swahili
Zanzibar, Tanzania

-British Museum
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Enthroned Virgin with Child and angels,
detail from a triptych.

18th-19th century,
Ethiopia.
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Crown, gold, and gilded copper with glass beads.

ca. 1740,
Ethiopia
-V&A museum
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Around the two lower tiers of the crown are images of the twelve Apostles,
On the top section are the four Evangelists - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Merina Royal Crown
Madagascar
ca. 1800-1896
-British Museum

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Headband made of tin decorated with coloured green glass stones. Superstructure of openwork gilt metal decorated with blue, red, and green glass stones.

The chaîne opératoire of Bronze Working in Ancient Sudan: An Attempt at Reconstituting the Manufacture of Kushite Weapons by Faïza Drici

Classic Kerma, Sudan (1700-1550BC)

(left)
bronze dagger
-Geneva, Museum of Art and History

(top)
bronze knife with handle in the form of a lion
-Khartoum, Sudan National Museum

(Bottom)
bronze sword
-Brussels, Cinquantenaire Museum

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Ceremonial sword (ngulu)
Ngala, D.R.C.
-Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

State sword (afena) with an iron blade and a gold hilt
19th century
Asante, Ghana
-British Museum

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copper-alloy headress surmounted by a lion
19th century
Dahomey, Benin.
-Yale University Art Gallery
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oil lamp
19th century,
Bozo, Mali
-Yale University Art Gallery

standard lamp
ca. 1883-1895
northern Nigeria
-British Museum

hanging lamp
ca. 1935
Bibiani, Ghana
-British Museum

hanging lamp
ca. 16th-19th century
Benin City, Nigeria
-British Museum

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copper-alloy headress surmounted by a lion
19th century
Dahomey, Benin.
-Yale University Art Gallery
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carved ivory salt-cellar

16th century,
Benin City, Nigeria.
-National Museum of Denmark
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19th-century manuscript and embossed leather cover
northern Nigeria
-Met Museum
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Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
18th-20th cent.
Timbuktu, Mali
Mamma Haidara Library (HMML)
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Stele of a priest of the 25th dynasty
760-655 BC
Itchy, son of Iouniou, before Ra-Horakhty
-Louvre Museum

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glass vessel and painted sherds decorated with; deities, birds, flowers, trees, and frogs

ca. 3rd century,
Late Meroitic Period
Ballana cemetery, Lower Nubia.
-Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
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near life-size terracotta head from Ife

12th–15th century,
Nigeria.
-Met Museum
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Shrine-shaped pectoral depicting Osiris seated between Isis and Horus

743–712 B.C. Reign of Piankhy (Piye)
Pyramid Ku 51 (tomb of a queen of Pianky), el-Kurru, Sudan.
-Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Copy of Al-Jazuli's "Dala'il al-khayrat" (waymarks of benefits)

ca. 1899 CE,
Somalia.
-collection of Constant Hamès
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silver and ivory snuff horns

19th century
Mende, Sierra Leone.
-Brooklyn Museum
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the 'Three Wise Monkeys' and other scenes on carved wooden panels
ca. 1930
Benin City, Nigeria
-University of Birmingham
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19th-century manuscript containing a drawing of a chessboard
-Ankobar Mikā'ēl Church, Ethiopia (digitised by HMML)

Ivory chess pieces
19th century
Tigray, Ethiopia
-British Museum

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game pieces from the Napatan period

-Head of a cat, Electrum
820–800 B.C. Pyramid 13, el-Kurru, Sudan.
-Playing piece with animal head, Faience
690–664 B.C. Meroe, W 609, Sudan
-Gaming die, Sandstone
750–270 B.C. Pyramid 61, Nuri, Sudan

-Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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carved wooden figures in the form of a Hen
18th-19th century
Benin City, Nigeria

-Stanley Museum of Art
-Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
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