Standing Human Figure

Unidentified Keaka or Ejagham maker

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not dated

Wood

Overall: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection

996.25.30261

Geography

Place Made: Upper Cross River region, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa

Period

19th-20th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

Expressions of Cameroon Art, The Franklin Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California, February 1-November 15, 1986; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1-September 6, 1987; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 5, 1987-January 3, 1988; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, June 6-September 4, 1988; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, October 3, 1988-January 8, 1989; Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, October 7-December 31, 1989; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, June 5, 1989-Janauary 9, 1990.

Loew Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 1996-March 26, 1997.

Publication History

Tamara Northern, Expressions of Cameroon Art, The Franklin Collection, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Rembrandt Press, 1986, p. 72, fig. 74.

Provenance

Harry A. Franklin Family Collection; lent to present collection, 1996; given to present collection, 2001.

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