Veranda Post
Akin Fakeye, Nigerian, born 1936
early 1960s
Hardwood
Overall: 70 7/8 × 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 in. (180 × 9.2 × 8 cm)
Overall: 73 7/16 × 11 3/16 × 11 5/16 in. (186.5 × 28.4 × 28.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank
2013.98.3
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Nigeria
Period
20th century
Object Name
Building Component
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, carved, on front, bottom section of post: AKIN.FAKEYE
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
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; to his brother Lamidi Fakeye; given to Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank (Peace Corps Volunteers), about 1963; given to present collection, 2013.
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