Ritual Gourd depicting Agassou Yemain
Andre Pierre, Haitian, 1914 - 2005
collected 1966
Oil paint on a calabash (kwi)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Micaela and Jack Mendelsohn, Class of 1956
2015.70.2
Geography
Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in black paint, lower center: AGassou / Yemain; initialed, in black paint, upper right side: A. P.
Course History
ANTH 7, Haiti and Its Visitors, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2019
Spanish 60.04, Caribbean Afrodecendancies, Magdalena Lopez, Spring 2023
Provenance
The artist, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; sold to Micaela and Jack Mendelsohn, July 1966; collection of Micaela and Jack Mendelsohn, Washington, D.C., 1966-2015; given to present collection, 2015.
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