At the 1900 Paris world’s fair, Gorham Manufacturing Company introduced a limited production line of handwrought wares named Martelé, the French word for "hammered." In the spirit of the British Arts and Crafts movement, each&nbsp

This tall female figure with short legs and feet sunk into a heavy cylindrical base is adorned with incised symbolic marks on her chest. Clusters of snail shells, cowrie shells, and red abrus seeds originally adorned her coiffure, upper arms, and abdome

Numerous masks representing the people, animals, and things in the Dogon world since the Creation appear at dama, a six-day commemorative funerary masquerade held every several years for important male elders.