Female Puppet Figure
Unidentified Baga maker
mid-20th century
Wood, pigment, and cotton cloth
Overall: 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
S.972.9
Geography
Place Made: Guinea, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Recreational Artifacts
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1972.
African Spring, Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 18, 1980, in conjunction with Nigerian Splendor.
Art of the Baga, Museum of African Art, New York, NY. The 2nd venue was the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Publication History
Frederick Lamp, Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention, Munich: Prestal Verlag, 1996, ill. p.216
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1972.
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