Pendant
Unidentified Akan maker
20th century
Gold and silver alloy
Overall: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Peter H. Voulkos
2001.51.34351
Geography
Place Made: Cote d'Ivoire, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
Exhibition History
African Arts of Personal Adornment, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, November 9-August 20, 2006.
Focus on the Body: West African Body Ornaments of Brass, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 10-September 19, 1999.
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
Galerie Walu (Rene David), Zurich, Switerland; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, July 11, 1989; given to Peter Voulkos, Oakland, California, 2001; given to present collection, 2001.
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