Female Figure Seated on Stool
Unidentified Bamana (Bambara) maker
19th century
Wood and brass earring
Overall: 24 in. (61 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
S.972.10
Geography
Place Made: Mali, Western Africa, Africa
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Sticker, bottom of stool: IMPORTED FROM FRANCE / 3(?)581/ MAR / COUSSIS; stamp, under right leg: DOUANES / EXPOR[?] PARIS (Central); sticker: Pott [broken off] / embal / 45 Rue KIDBER (?) / Marcoussis / 156
Course History
HIST 5.1, AAAS 14, Pre-Colonial African History, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Winter 2013
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-January 7, 1973.
African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.
African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1972.
African Negro Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, March 20-May 28, 1935 [did this work travel to the other venues?]
Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, February 8-29, 1976.
Exposition d'Art Africain Et d'Art Oceanien, Galerie Pigalle, Paris, France, February 28-April 1, 1930.
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p. 66, no. 34.
Charles Ratton, Exposition d'art Africain et d'art Oceanien, Paris: Gallerie Pigalle, 1930, plate 7.
James Johnson Sweeney, African Folktales & Sculpture, New York: Bollingen Foundation Inc. (by Pantheon Books Inc.), 1952, plate 46.
James Johnson Sweeney (curator), African Negro Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935, plate 5 (as Dogon)
Provenance
Louis Marcoussis (1878-1941), Paris, by 1930; Dr. Maurice Girardin (1884-1951), Paris, date acquired unknown (after 1941?); Princess Gourielli (Helena Rubinstein, 1870-1965), by 1952, Paris, by 1952; Aaron Furman Gallery, New York, date acquired unknown (after 1965?); John Friede (born 1939), New York, date acquired unknown; to his mother, Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1972.
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