Medicine Mat / Power Emblem
Unidentified Ekpe Society maker, Banyang
late 19th-20th century
Raffia, animal skulls, and wood
Overall: 47 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (120 × 102.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund, Anonymous funds, and through gifts, by exchange
987.18.26714
Geography
Place Made: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
REL 14, AAAS 18, Introduction to African Religions, Robert Baum, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 19, 2002-February 16, 2003.
Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.
Correspondences: African Sculpture at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 1996-March 2, 1997.
Curator's Choice: Recent Acquisitions and Loans of African Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1991.
Resonances of Power, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 12, 1998-February 18, 1999.
The Commanding Presence of Imagery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1988.
Works from the Continent of Africa, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-March 15, 2020.
Publication History
Rebecca Bailey, What Is There to Teach About Art?, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 88, Number 8, May 1996, South Burlington: The Lane Press Inc., 1996, pp.36-45, ill. p. 40
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 27.
Provenance
Davis Gallery, Ethnographic Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; sold to present collection, 1987.
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