Cross
Unidentified African-Portuguese maker
19th century
Wood
Overall: 18 7/8 × 9 1/16 × 15/16 in. (48 × 23 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
999.3.30470
Geography
Place Made: M'Banza-Kongo, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Religious Object
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
ARTH 28.01, Global Renaissance, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2021
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
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
Cecile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 283 pp., ill. p. 263.
Provenance
Susana Montiel de Colmenares, London, England; sold to present collection, 1999.
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