African Art Collection

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields is committed to correctly attributing people, groups, and cultures that created the objects in its African Art collection, and collaborating with communities to inform the use and reuse of digital surrogates.

Emma Carter
ecarter@discovernewfields.org

• https://collections.discovernewfields.org/search?department.keyword=African+Art

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Collections and items in our institution have incomplete, inaccurate, and/or missing attribution. We are using this notice to clearly identify this material so that it can be updated, or corrected by communities of origin. Our institution is committed to collaboration and partnerships to address this problem of incorrect or missing attribution.

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