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High Museum's African art curator picks her top pieces from the collection
We asked Lauren Tate Baeza, the High Museum's new curator of African art to select her favorite pieces in the collection.
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We asked Lauren Tate Baeza, the High Museum's new curator of African art to select her top pieces in the collection and to talk about why they are important. First up: Unidentified Artist, in Timbuktu, Mali, created this Quran sometime in the 16th and 18th centuries.
Baeza said this is a companion piece to the terra cotta figure, also from ancient Mali:
“Another object in the collection from Mali that is reflective of its rich past as a flourishing empire of great wealth and commercial activity and an important religious, cultural and educational center.”
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