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Reliquary Figure
Kota peoples
19th–20th century

Ndungu
probably Mayombe peoples
19th century

Bell
Gabonese
ca. 1875–1910

Mbulu ngulu (image of the dead)
Obamba(?)–Kota artist
Late 19th–early 20th century

Ikabo?
Mpongwe people
19th century

Reliquary Figure: Seated Male (Nlo Bieri)
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Reliquary Head (Nlo Bieri)
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Arched Harp
possibly Fang people
19th century

Mbejn
Fang people
19th century

Figure: Female
Lumbo peoples
19th–20th century

Mvet
Fang people
late 19th century

Quadruple Bell
Gabonese
late 19th century

Ngombi (arched Harp)
Fang/Kele people
19th century

Mask (mukudj)
Punu peoples

Mbejn
Fang people
19th century

Drum
Mpongwe people
19th century

Ogooué Lambaréné—Young girls [Ogooué Lambaréné—Jeunes Filles]
Khalilou
early 20th century

Half Figure: Female
Tsogho peoples
19th–20th century

Ngombo
Tsogo People
19th century

Ancestral figure

Walker Evans

1935

Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
19th - early 20th century (before 1926)

Double Bell
Gabonese
mid 19th–early 20th century

Mendzang (xylophone)
Gabonese
19th century

Reliquary Figure (Nlo Bieri)
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Mbejn
Fang people
19th century

Side-blown horn
Fang artist
19th century

Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Male Holding Vessel
Fang peoples
19th - early 20th century (before 1914)

Rattle
Gabonese
ca. 1850–1910

Figurative Harp
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Akam (Pluriarc)
Fang
late 19th–early 20th century

Nlô byeri (reliquary guardian head)
Betsi-Fang artist
19th century

Male Reliquary Figure (Nlo Bieri)
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Horn
Gabonese
early 20th Century

Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble: Head
Fang peoples, Betsi group

Door
Tsogho artist
Late 19th–early 20th century

Reliquary Figure
Kota peoples
19th–20th century

Figure from a Reliquary Element: Seated Male (Nlo Bieri)
Fang peoples
19th–20th century

Zanze
Gabonese
late 19th century

Ancestral figure -profile view

Walker Evans

1935

Ngombi
Tsogo
mid-20th century