Initiation Post
Unidentified Gogo maker
late 19th-early 20th century
Wood
Overall: 78 in. (198.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: 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
Place Made: Tanzania, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Building Component
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
Provenance
Axis Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2006.
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