Oversized earrings designed with four lobes have been worn by Fulani women for hundreds of years, both to enhance their natural beauty and to display their families' wealth.

Between 1908 and 1913, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French painter Georges Braque developed a new style of painting now known as cubism. Breaking with traditional representations of space and perspective, cubist artists depicted objects from shifting points of view, as if seen from several markedly different angles at once.

This stool is carved in the form of two opposing cones that appear as if they are separate pieces joined at their narrow ends; however, the stool was carved from a single block of wood. The two cone-forms are thought to be symbolic: the upper cone symbolizes the skies or heaven and the lower one the earth.

Ndoma means "double." Masks like this one portray prominent members of the village, who—although idealized with a composed facial expression and respectful downcast eyes—can be recognized by their facial features, hairstyles, and scarifications. They are usually commissioned by a man to honor a female relative or to be presented by a carver in homage to a beautiful and talented female dancer.

This sculpture is one of seventeen standing female figures attributed to the Master of Ogol, an artist who worked in villages located on the Bandiagara Escarpment.

Zulu women make izinkamba (sing. ukhamba) in different shapes and sizes for brewing, transporting, storing, and drinking beer This vessel is for drinking beer.

This over life-size figure represents Owedjebo, a village founder and warrior of the Agbon clan. He assumes an aggressive pose with an intense gaze and an inflated chest; he holds a spear in one hand and a cutlass in the other (now missing). He is depicted wearing a warrior's bush pig tusk headband, a chest pendant, and leather belts with bells.

Akan portraiture is generic and idealized; however, Akan viewers would recognize the subject based on the individualized hairstyle and specific facial scarification at the temples. 

French glass designer René Jules Lalique's opalescent white, spherical molded glass vase depicts berry-laden mistletoe branches in bas-relief.