Armlet or Anklet with Four Stylized Faces

Unidentified Yoruba maker

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18th-19th century

Overall: 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (2.2 × 15.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arnold and Joanne Syrop

988.63.27032

Geography

Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Personal Adornment

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

Focus on the Body: West African Body Ornaments of Brass, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 10-September 19, 1999.

Provenance

Joanne and Arnold Syrop, New York; given to present collection, 1988.

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