Yoruba Kneeling Female Figure Holding a Bowl
Lamidi Fakeye, Yoruba / Nigerian, 1928 - 2009
early 1960s
Wood
Overall: 12 5/8 × 2 3/4 × 4 in. (32 × 7 × 10.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank
2013.98.2
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, carved, on bottom of base: L.O. FAKEYE
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
ARTH 17.2, AAAS 80.5, Twentieth-Century African Art , Ugochukwu Smooth Nzwei, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art, Friends Gallery/Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16-March 13, 2016.
Provenance
The artist, Ibandan, Nigeria; sold to Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank (Peace Corps Volunteers),1962-1964; given to present collection, 2013.
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