Africa
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of more than 4,200 African objects. These date from 1850 to 2005. This collection is the second largest of its kind in Scotland. It contains a broad range of cultural artefacts, such as ceremonial masks, carvings, weapons, domestic items, body ornaments, costume, textiles, furniture, musical instruments, ritual objects and wooden, stone and metal carvings. There are also a number of unique and rare items that are examples of their originating cultures. These include an ancestral screen from the Kalabari people of the Niger River Delta in Nigeria, an East African ceremonial cape of colobus monkey skins, a rare carved wooden funerary screen from the Kalabari Ijo in Nigeria, an Afro-Portuguese dagger from Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone, and a pair of rare Vend carved initiation figures from South Africa. The collection also boasts the only contemporary leaded brass sculpture from Benin in a UK museum, and the only UK work by the Zimbabwean artist Sithabile Mlotshwa.
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