with Articulated Figure on Crown
Used in Sogo performance, Bozo people, Mali, late-20th century
Wood with oil enamel, steel nails, string, fabric.
(38.5" h. x 15" w. x 38" d.).
A very similar puppet, also from the Rosen Collection, is shown on page of 353 of the Rosens' book The Colorful Sogo Bo Puppets of Mali.

Vintage Huichol yarn painting c. 1970's
Yarn pressed into beeswax on plywood
(24" x 24")

This 24 X 24 yarn painting is by master artist Cresencio Perez Robles. Perez's work was included in book Art of the Huichol Indians, which accompanied an exhibition of Huichol Indian Art, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition traveled from San Francisco in 1978 to Chicago and New York. It was this show and the accompanying catalogue that first introduced Huichol yarn painting to the general public.
Cresencio Perez Robles work was also featured in the exhibit Living Traditions Mexican Popular Arts in 1992 at the University Art Museum at Albany State University of New York and the accompanying book of the same title.
This picture was made in the 1970's of wool yarn pressed onto wax spread on a wooden board. Today yarn paintings are made of acrylic yarn. On the back the artist wrote the meaning of the piece in both Huichol and in Spanish and it is signed by the artist.

Anuj Tekam - Patangarh, Madhya Pradesh State, India
c.2012
Acrylic on canvas
(17" h. x 21" w. )

Yoruba, Nigeria, mid-20th century
Wood with red, black, white oil paint, with remnants of red fabric costume (11"h x 7"w).  
Mounted on custom stand.
 

Headdress in form of antelope head surmounting female pangolin - companion piece to male headdress, #AFM-68.  
Wood w/ organic and mineral pigments, woven basket, cotton fiber, glass beads, cowrie shells.
(15 1/2” h. x 8” w. x 21 1/2” d. ).

Alexis Ngom (b. 1957 in Fao, Dept. of Mbour, Senegal) - Dakar, Senegal
1986
Reverse-painting on glass (9 1/2" h x 13"w.)
Framed

José Ignacio Fletes Cruz (Leon, Nicaragua)
Acrylic on canvas (20 x 16), 2011
 

Carved wood sculpture, covered with beads set in beeswax.
5 1/2" h. x 3" w. x 9" l.
Nayarit, Mexico, purchased 1996.

Guatemala, 20th cent.
Wood painted with oil paints
10 1/4" w. x 7 1/2" d. x 8 1/4" h.)