Two Balafon Players at their Instrument
Unidentified Dogon maker
first quarter of the 20th century
Wood and libational patination
Overall: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Overall: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Stephen H. Spahn, Class of 1963
992.19.29023
Geography
Place Made: Mali, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
HIST 5.1, AAAS 14, Pre-Colonial African History, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Winter 2013
REL 14, AAAS 18, Introduction to African Religions, Robert Baum, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
Correspondences: African Sculpture at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 1996-March 2, 1997.
Publication History
Diane Cyr, The Art of Collecting, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 88, Number 8, May 1996, South Burlington: The Lane Press Inc., 1996, pp.56-63, ill. p. 60
Provenance
By descent through Constance Perlman Spahn's family ; to Stephen H. Spahn; given to present collection, 1992.
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