Smithsonian African Museum

Okay, this is Ted Ellis and I'm in the African Museum at the Smithsonian and I'm a student at Southern University of New Orleans Museum Studies program graduate program and part of our class assignment is to see and engage objects and artifacts that have come from Africa and And this is part of the collection of the Smithsonian We have close to in their permanent collection well over 5,000 objects and artifacts This entire piece is created by a contemporary artist from Benin right here that you see so and Tremendous amount of artifacts. Here's a phenomenal hand-carved door that we're going to see right now Look at the intricacy of that door the information of the artists and the region of Africa that it's from This is Ted Ellis sharing culture art history tradition Iconography all here at the Smithsonian African Museum, this is Ted Ellis Museum Studies candidate Southern University in New Orleans Masters Museum Studies, thank you