Hair Matters

Head,2500-800 BP(500BC-200AD)Terracotta

Head of a female OoniIfe (Yoruba) NigeriaTerracotta800-700 BP

Olowe, Offering Bowl,Yoruba, NigeriaWood, pigmentEarly 20th century

Mother and childYoruba, NigeriaWood, pigments, fiber20th century

Sowei Headdress,Sande society, (Gola, Vai Peoples)Liberia Sierra LeoneWood, pigment20th centuryRelative luminosity/shinning smoothness

Sande society initiates,Bandi, Liberia

Figure,Fanti, GhanaWood, fabric, beads20th century

Various stages of coiffure makingFanti, GhanaEarly 20th century

Comb,Baule, Ivory Coast,Wood, gold, thread20th century

Hairpin /hair spoonsZulu PeoplesIvory,

Bhaca woman with hairpinsSouth Africa

Hairstyle made with fruit pipsWando Peoples, Namibia

Woman with wig Southwest, Angola

Banza manDemocratic Republic of Congo

Berber woman with musical instrument

Woman with coiffure in the Form of a crest with ornamentsAnd comb,Igbo Peoples, Nigeria

Woman with feather and other Hair ornaments,Oulad-Hamid, SudanEarly 20th century

Child with fontanel protectionMambila, Cameroon

(Dada—Alaade ori) Omo’lokun,Dread locks,Yoruba/Edo Peoples, Nigeria20th century

Bolaji Campbell, Abiku,Soil on canvas,1993

Girl with her dollMwila, Angola

Doll,Mwila, AngolaWood, fiber, beads

Basket like coiffure,Mangbetu Peoples,Democratic Republic of Congo

Magbetu womanD.R. Congo

Fulani woman with elaborateCoiffure,20th century

Fan-shaped Coiffure, Zande Peoples, D.R. Congo

Man with comb in hairKassanga Peoples, Guinea

Man with dreadlocksBrooklyn, New York

Toni Morrison,Nobel Laureate for Literature

Denis Rodman

Venus Williams