African Art and Material Culture Collections in Kansas

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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 of mainly West African "art", 1980

Kenneth Palmer Collection of mainly West African "art", 1982

Larry Welling Collection, West African art, 1982

Reinhild Kauenhoven Janzen Collection of 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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