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| Jemaa head, from Nok, Nigeria, fifth century B.C. Terracotta, 9 13/16" high. National Museum, Lagos. |
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| Equestrian figure on fly-whisk hilt, from Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, ninth to tenth centuries. Copper-alloy bronze, figure 6 3/16" high. National Museum, Lagos. |
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| King, from Ife, Nigeria, eleventh to twelfth centuries. Zinc brass, 18 1/2" high. Ife Museum, Ife. |
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| Ivory belt mask of a Queen Mother, from Benin, Nigeria, mid-sixteenth century. Ivory and iron, 9 3/8" high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller |
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| Altar of the hand, from Benin, Nigeria, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries (?). Bronze, 17 1/2" high. British Museum, London |
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| Mother and child, from Djenne, Mali, eleventh to fourteenth centuries. Terracotta, 11" high. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (Stanley Collection). |
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| Eastern façade of Friday Mosque, Djenne, Mali, thirteenth century, rebuilt in 1906–1907 |
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| Sapi warrior, from Sierra Leone, fifteenth century. Serpentine, 7 1/2" high. Historisches Museum, Bern. |
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| MASTER OF THE SYMBOLIC EXECUTION, saltcellar, Sapi-Portuguese, from Sierra Leone, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries. Ivory, 16 7/8" high. Museo Nazionale Preistorico e Etnografico, Rome |
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| Head, from Lydenburg, South Africa, sixth to eighth centuries. Painted terracotta, 14 15/16" high. South African Museum, Cape Town. |
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| Conical tower, Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, fifteenth century |
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| Bird with crocodile image on top of stone monolith, from Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, fifteenth century. Soapstone, bird image 14 1/2" high. Great Zimbabwe Site Museum, Great Zimbabwe |
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