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.

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