Tissue From Goat Sacrifice

Unidentified Zulu maker

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collected 1966

Tissue

Overall: 20 1/2 in. (52 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

167.6.24159

Geography

Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Purchased by Professor James W. Fernandez in Fon Market, Abomey, Benin (Dahomey) for Dartmouth College Museum, 1967.

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