Mfumu Kanda (Memorial Figure of a Clan Leader)

Unidentified Kongo or Yombe maker

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19th-20th century

Wood, kaolin, glass, and brass tacks

Overall: 12 × 4 15/16 × 4 1/2 in. (30.5 × 12.5 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund

998.4.30364

Geography

Place Made: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Course History

AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013

ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013

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.

Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2013-April 6, 2014.

Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2, 2000.

Resonances of Power, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 12, 1998-February 28, 1999.

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

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, cover ill.

Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 16, no. 10.

Provenance

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; sold to Arthur Granick (1913-2009), 1940; Sotheby's, New York, November 14, 1995, lot 21; private collection; L & R Entwistle and Co. Ltd.; sold to present collection, 1998.

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