Nikishi, Power Object

Kiloko of Busango, Luba-Shankadi, died 1930

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late 19th-early 20th century

Wood

Overall: 9 in. (22.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall

S.973.308

Geography

Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.

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.

Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.

The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-September 1975.

Publication History

Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Mueum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 21, no. 15.

Provenance

Collected in the Congo, 1906; Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005), New York; given to present collection, 1973.

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