Waste Core - Yellow Ochre Stone

Unidentified maker (Ghana)

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Neolithic

Yellow ochre

Overall: 1 9/16 × 1 5/16 × 3/4 in. (4 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of R. Duncan Mathewson III, Class of 1960

166.55.24015

Geography

Place Made: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Africa

Archaeology

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nathaniel Dominy, Spring 2015

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023

Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023

Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Veer Chaudhary, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.

Provenance

Excavated by the donor, R. Duncan Mathewson III Kintompo Neolithic assemblage, Chokoto, Western Ghana; given to present collection, 1966.

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