Waste Core - Yellow Ochre Stone
Unidentified maker (Ghana)
Neolithic
Yellow ochre
Overall: 1 9/16 × 1 5/16 × 3/4 in. (4 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of R. Duncan Mathewson III, Class of 1960
166.55.24015
Geography
Place Made: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Africa
Archaeology
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nathaniel Dominy, Spring 2015
Environmental Studies 26.01, Soil Ecological Systems, Bala Chaudary, Spring 2023
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Pigment of Imagination, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, April 15-August 5, 2022.
Provenance
Excavated by the donor, R. Duncan Mathewson III Kintompo Neolithic assemblage, Chokoto, Western Ghana; given to present collection, 1966.
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