Funerary Portrait Head
Unidentified Akan maker
1875-1950
Terracotta
Overall: 10 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (25.5 × 17 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.53.27138
Geography
Place Made: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Allvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 2009-July 2010.
Publication History
Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Mueum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 17, no. 11.
Provenance
Harry A. Franklin, about 1950; to Valerie Franklin (daughter), 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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