Hand Cross
Unidentified Eritrean maker
1964-1965
Brass
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel Whiting
165.33.15644
Geography
Place Made: Asmara, Eritrea, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Religious Object
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
History 5.08, African and African American Studies 19.01, Africa and the World, Robby Zeinstra, Fall 2023
History 5.08, African and African American Studies 19.01, Africa and the World, Robby Zeinstra, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
Works from the Continent of Africa, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-March 15, 2020.
Provenance
Collected by Joel Whiting, Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia), early 1960's; given to present collection, 1965.
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