Kenneth Palmer Collection, # 249, 1980, # 299, 1982, West Africa and Southern Sudan

Palmer's art collection of 263 pieces mostly from West Africa, Yoruba figurines, masks of the Gelede, Egungu, Epa, and Igala societies, Benin bronzes, ibeji twin figures, drums, Ashanti gold weights and a scale, carved doors, as well as Shilluk dolls from the Sudan.

Gold Weights Ashanti, Ghana

E-2789 1.5 cm long 1 cm high 1 cm wide E-2796 2.5 cm long 2 cm high 2.5 cm wide E-2801 1 cm long 0.5 cm high 1 cm wide

FFF E-2802 Gold Scale 10 cm long 5 cm diameter

Entire Gold Weight Collection

Masks

Gelede masks: "The Gelede festival pays tribute to female mystical power of ancestors, elders, and deities. These women are known as "our mothers." The power of "our mothers" is at once constructive, relating to fertility, knowledge of the secret of life, and also destructive, a surreptitious power, aje, which is more like witchcraft (Drewal, H. and Drewal M.T. 1983. Gelede. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 8)." E-3994 29.5 cm high 39 cm diameter E-4127 23 cm high 29.5 cm diameter

E-4120 37 cm high 43.5 cm diameter 76.6.130 igala FFF 76.6.060 Oba head, Benin Kingdom (Edo)

carved figures

E-3991 75 cm high 31.5 cm diameter   3-D View 76.6.83 and E-3991 Backview 76.6.83

twin figures E-2595 29.5 cm high 8.5 cm wide E2574 22 cm high 5.5 cm wide E2575 23 cm high 6 cm wide E-3984 54.5 cm high 32 cm wide E-1167 Palmer Figure Collection

Tyi Wara Headpiece, Mali.
E-5012

Yoruba talking drum: Nigeria

FFF 77.66.51

Shilluk dolls: Sudan
E-2960 34 cm long 9.5 cm wide E-2961 35.5 cm long 9 cm wide	E-2962 34.5 cm long 7 cm wide E-2963 34.5 cm long 7.5 cm wide	E-2964 39 cm long 7.5 cm wide E-2965 34 cm long 8.5 cm wide
E-2966 36 cm long 9 cm wide	E-2967 40 cm long 8.5 cm wide	E-2968 40 cm long 8.5 cm wide
E-2969 40 cm long 7.5 cm wide
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