Head Fragment of the Great Damba, Patroness of Women
Unidentified Baga maker
19th century
Wood
Overall: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall
S.973.320
Geography
Place Made: Guinea, Western Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
African Spring, Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 28-May 18, 1980, in conjunction with Nigerian Splendor.
Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.
Rotunday, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 16-October 1974.
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005); given to present collection, 1973.
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