Initiation Post
Unknown Maker, Gogo people, Tanzania, Eastern Africa, Africa
late 19th-early 20th century
Wood
Overall: 78 in. (198.12 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund, the William B. and Evelyn F. Jaffe (58, 60, & 63) Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.13
Geography/Culture
Africa, Eastern Africa, Tanzania
Period
19th-20th century
Object Name
Building Component
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2013-April 6, 2014.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Gender and the Complementarity of Opposites in Tanzanian Sculpture, Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July - August 28, 2006.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 110, plate 16.
Barbara Thompson, An Exceptional and Enigmatic Post, Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, No. 16, Summer 2006, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, p. 11.
Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.24.
Provenance
Axis Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2006.
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