Staff for a Champion Cultivator (Tefalipitya)

Unidentified Senufo maker

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early 20th century

Wood

Overall: 25 1/4 in. (64.1 cm)

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

S.968.95

Geography

Place Made: Cote d'Ivoire, Western Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Staff

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Course History

WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015

Exhibition History

A Collector's Choice, William B. Jaffe Memorial Exhibition, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1972-January 7, 1973.

African Art: A Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 44, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 31-December 6, 1998.

African Spring, Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 28-May 18, 1980, in conjunction with Nigerian Splendor.

Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Anthropology 44, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29-December 18, 1994.

The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-September 1975.

Provenance

Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1968.

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