The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Employees’ Association Minstrel Show and Dance
will be held at the American Woman’s Association
361 West 57th Street, Saturday evening,
October 17, 1936

 


I am anxious to buy a small healthy negro girl
ten or twelve years old, and would like to know
if you can let me have one …

MRS. B. L. BLANKENSHIP

 


The Ship’s Inventory:


Four-Breasted Vessel, Three Women
in Front of a Steamy Pit, Two-Faced
Head Fish Trying on Earrings, Unidentified.

Young Woman with Shawl
and Painted Backdrop, Pearl
of the Forest, Two Girls

with Braids People
on a Ship with Some Dancing
Girls. Our Lady of Mercy, Blue.

Nude Iconologia Girl
with Red Flower Sisters
of the Boa Woman Flying a Butterfly.

Kite                Empty
Chair              Pocket
Book               Girl

in Red Dress with Cats and Dog’s Devil.
House Door of No Return. Head-of-a-Girl-
In-the-Bedroom in the kitchen.

Contemplation Dark-Girl Girl.
In the Window Negress with
Flower Sleeping Woman

(Negress with Flower Head
of a Woman-Nude in a Land
scape) —Libyan Sybil: Coloured, Nude-High

Yellow Negro Woman
and Two ChildrenThe Flight
of the Octoroon: the Four Quarters of

the World, Holding
a Celestial Sphere.
 

 

Invocation

BLESSING THE BOAT


Untitled
Anonymous
Clay

Prehistoric
Cow
Bone

Detail

Of a
Balsarium
Glass Moss

Fragment
Untitled Gelatin
Silver Print

On Paper On
Stucco On Canvas
On Concrete

Apotheosis:

Obverse anthropomorphic sarcophagus.
Alabastron eulogia ampulla.

Anonymous fragment.  Frag
Ment.  Pavement (Detail). Pain t

On tin—Figure 150, Figure 151:
Strings and black mud.

Terracotta terracotta.
Anonymous relief.

Untitled Anonymous Limestone,
Isolated Ronde Bosse.

Plant Fiber Beads, Red
Abrus Seeds, Solar-Mosaic Wood Plate.

Ointment Vase, Printed Bedspread,
Artificial HairNeck

Decoration from a Tunic. Untitled Chewing Gum,
Gold—Gold Repoussé, Anonymous Plaster-Ink.

Salted Paper, Coins, Carbon,
Ivory-Colored Pencil. Graffiti

On the sides and undergirding
Of a bridge. Da Guerre!

O Type accumulatedFigurine 38 felt
Tip monumental relief.
 

Grass      Stain
Ivory        Spoon
Berry       Juice
White      Pigment


Hide.


Heads and Busts
Headless—Footless—Armless

But with a Strongly
Incised Vaginal


Opening:

Harp


Harp
With Bridge                Harp
Lute

One-key
Xylophone
Slit

Gong
Trumpet                      Gong
Gong 

Mallet
Whistle
Rattle


Drum


 

Catalog I:

ANCIENT GREECE & ANCIENT ROME

Here is your name
said the woman
and vanished in the corridor
MAHMOUD DARWISH


I.

Statuette of a Woman Reduced
to the Shape of a Flat Paddle

Statuette of a Black Slave Girl
Right Half of Body and Head Missing

Head of a Young Black Woman Fragment
from a Statuette of a Black Dancing Girl

Reserve Head of an African Princess
Statuette of a Concubine

Full Length Figure of a Standing
Black Woman Wearing Earrings

Statuette Once Supported an Unguent Vase
Vase with Neck in the Form of a Head

of a Black Statuette of a Female
Figure with Negroid Features

Figure’s Left Arm Missing Head
of a Female Full-length Figure

of a Nubian Woman
the Arms Missing

Bust of a Draped Female Facing Forward
One Breast Exposed         Black

Adolescent Female with Long Curls and Bare
Breasts Wearing a Voluminous Crown

Partially Broken Young Black Girl
Presenting a Stemmed Bowl

Supported
by a Monkey

:

Standing Female Reliquary Figure
with Crested Coiffure and Hands

Clasped in Front of Torso, Holding
a Staff Surmounted by a Human Head

Figure Has Prominent
Vagina Bended

Knees and Oversized Head
with Half-Open Eyes

and Semicircle Mouth
That Juts Out

from the Face Some
Fine Scarification

on Chest and Belly
Dark Brown Almost Black

Patina with Oil Oozing
in Several Places

Numerous Cracks
on Back of Head and Hole

on the Coiffure
One Nipple Appears

to Be Shaved Off
or Damaged Black Woman

Standing on Tiptoe
on One End of a Seesaw

While a Caricatured Figure Jumps
on the Other

End

 

:       ELEMENT OF FURNITURE DECORATION

[Two Nubian Prisoners Bound
to a Post] Protome [Probably

the Handle of a Whip
or Other Implement] Oil Flask Back

View Head of an African Prisoner
Statue of Prisoner Kneeling Arms

Bound at the Elbows
Left Arm Missing

Bust of a Nubian Prisoner
with Fragmentary Arms

Bound Behind Funerary Mask
of a Negro with Inlaid Glass Eyes

and Traces of Incrustations
Present in the Mouth

Censer in the Form of a Nude Negro
Dwarf Standing with His Hands

at His Sides upon an Ornate Tripod
and Supporting on His Head

a Small Cup
in the Shape

of a Lotus
Flower


 

II.

water jar

bowl

ointment spoon

                              in the form of swimming
                              black girl

mirror
with handle

                              in the form of a carved standing
                              black girl

handle
of a sistrum

                              a Bes and an Isia dancing
                              back-to-back

two nails

                              with Negro heads in relief

head

                              of a Negro which may have
                              adorned

a pin

                              mounted in a

ring

bezel

bowl

                              decorated with three heads
                              in relief

                              separated by flat veined leaves
                              female puppet with

mortar and pestle
necklace

                              with two heads
                              of black women forming

a clasp
perfume vase

                              head of an adolescent

aryballos 

                              juxtaposing two heads of Negroes
                              cast from the same mold

mirror
with handle

                              in the form of a young Nubian
                              female standing

lamp

                              in the form of

the head

                              of a black perhaps

incense
shovel

                              with a Negro head attached

to handle
a girl 

                              with long corkscrew curls
                              round face wide
                              flat nose and mouth

open

                              and jutting forward 
                              to form

a spout

inkwell

                              in the form of a crouching
                              Negro Negro
                              seated writing on

a scroll


 

III. THE GREAT HUNT: TORMENT OF THE DAMNED

Heraldic Lion Holding
Between His Paws the Head

of a Kneeling Black Captive
Statuette of a Negro Captive Kneeling

Hands Bound Behind Back
Negro Youth Struggling

with a Crocodile Negro
Youth Struggling with a Crocodile

Negro Youth Struggling
with a Crocodile Pygmy

Armed with a Stick Statuette
of a Black Girl with Her Head

Inclined Toward the Left
Shoulder Dagger with Decoration

In Relief Lion Devouring a Black Head
of a Black Nude Black Serving Girl

Carrying an Ointment
Chest on Her Head

Ointment Spoon in the Form
of a Swimming Nubian Girl

Swimmer Holds Before Her
a Duck Fragment

That Once Formed the Spoon
[Black Swimmers Symbolizing the Dawn]

Young Black Female Carrying
a Perfume Vase with a Necklace

with Pendant Figure of the God Bes
Drawn in Black Ink Around Her

Neck     Plaited     Lock
of Hair on Left Side of Her Head Relief

[The Queen of Meroë Spearing
Captives] Handle or Pommel

in the Form of Three Conjoined Heads
Including a Black Woman Perhaps

Black in the Clutches of a Lion
Black Prisoners Followed

by Women and Children Statuette
Figure of a Young Black Girl Holding

a Perfume Vase in Front of Her Statuette
of Young Nubian Girl Carrying an Ointment Vase

Wearing a Necklace
of the God Bes

God of Joy
and of the Dance


 

IV.


Standing


Female Figure with Child Kneeling
Female Figure with Child Standing
Female Figure Head
Rest Supported by Seated
Female Figure Kneeling
Female Figure with Bowl Standing
Female Figure with Bowl and Child Standing
Female Figure Seated
Female Figure (Pipe)
Female Figure Undated
Female Figure Mask
Female Rhythm Pounder


Standing


 

V.

Attendants bringing
Offerings to the burial

Funerary relief
Detail of relief

Carved relief
Grave relief

Vase with painted
Decoration relief

Site relief
Relief fragment

From the tomb (Isis
Receiving the Sacrifice)

Relief
Relief

Relief
Relief