Staff with Figurative Finial
Unidentified Makonde maker
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1900-1930
Wood
Overall: 21 5/8 × 1 5/16 × 1 3/16 in. (54.9 × 3.3 × 3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
2003.3.35525
Geography
Place Made: Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Staff
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
Norman Hurst Gallery, New York, November 11-November 17, 2002.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 29.
Provenance
Estate of an anonymous Massachusetts collector; Norman Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2003.
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