Omama Bencelisa (Mothers Breastfeeding) from The Self Portrait Project (2007/2013)
Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
AP
Image: 20 1/16 × 13 3/8 in. (51 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 23 3/8 × 16 9/16 in. (59.4 × 42 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2014.58.1
Geography
Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Africa
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in graphite: NOMUSA MAKHUBU; inscribed, lower center, in graphite: OMAMA BENCELISA (2007/2013); inscribed, lower right, in graphite: AP
Course History
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 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.
Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology 3, Winter 2015, Chelsey Kivland, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2014-March 15,2015.
Provenance
Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa; sold to present collection, 2014.
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