African Art and Material Culture Collections in Kansas
A remarkable number of African material culture collections have found their way to Kansas museums. The Kansas African Studies Center, as a part of its effort to highlight the resources for African studies in the state and region, lists here some of these collections, beginning with the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology, and going out from there.

William Harvey Brown Collection
Ndebele and Shona of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1908
Lewis L. Dyche Collection
Lloyd Kepferle Collection
Claude Brown Collection
Chokwe of Angola, 1910-1915
Mona Millikan Collection
Marshall Lamar Collection
Seton Karr Collection
African Paleolithic & Egyptian Fayuum Neolithic
William Siemers Collection
Fang of Gabon, 1965
Kansas Bible Collection, 1973
Ann Hart Collection
Southern Africa, 1976
Robert Cobb & Delbert Shankel Collection
Benin, Nigeria, 1978
Theodore Eaton Collection
Nigeria, 1979
Kenneth Palmer Collection
Mainly West African "art", 1980
Kenneth Palmer Collection
Mainly West African "art", 1982
Larry Welling Collection
West African art, 1982
Reinhild Kauenhoven Janzen Collection
South African Ndebele, 1983
Gloria Winter Collection
West African sculpture, 1983
Barbara Michael Collection
Baggara of the Sudan, 1986
Joyce Karen Sueeta Collection
Glenn M. Duffee Collection
Fifi White Collection
Kuba rafia cloth, 1987
Sue Schuessler Collection
Ndebele & Shona, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1997
Jill Zinn Collection 1999
Sandra Gray Collection 1999
Robert Brown Collection 2000
Digital Presentation of the Barbara Michael Collection
The Baggara of the Sudan by Khalid Alowain, 2003
The Hamburger Ivory, 2005



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