Mbumba-bwiti, Half Figure for a Reliquary

Unidentified Tsogo maker

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early 20th century

Wood, hide, brass, cotton cloth, black and red pigment

Overall: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)

Overall: 14 1/2 in. (36.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H

S.967.122

Geography

Place Made: Gabon, Central Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1972.

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

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, p. 72, no. 46.

Alexander Bortolot, Art That Lives? Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Hood Mueum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. p. 9, no. 3.

Provenance

Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1967.

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