Mfumu Kanda (Memorial Figure of a Clan Leader)
Unidentified Kongo or Yombe maker
19th-20th century
Wood, kaolin, glass, and brass tacks
Overall: 12 × 4 15/16 × 4 1/2 in. (30.5 × 12.5 × 11.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund
998.4.30364
Geography
Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Allvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 2009-July 2010.
Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2013-April 6, 2014.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2, 2000.
Resonances of Power, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 12, 1998-February 28, 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.
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, cover ill.
Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 16, no. 10.
Provenance
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; sold to Arthur Granick (1913-2009), 1940; Sotheby's, New York, November 14, 1995, lot 21; private collection; L & R Entwistle and Co. Ltd.; sold to present collection, 1998.
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