Miniature Bow Drill

Unidentified possibly proto-Bamana maker

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possibly 15-16th century

Copper alloy

Overall: 1 7/8 × 3 3/8 in. (4.7 × 8.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joseph Knopfelmacher

986.18.26705

Geography

Place Made: Inner Niger Delta region, Mali, Western Africa, Africa

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Funerary Equipment

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collected in Bamako, Mali by Joseph Knopfelmacher and Margaret Harris Knopfelmacher (Craft Caravan Gallery), New York in 1960's-1970's; given to present collection, 1986.

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