Kneeling Female Figure for Divination

Unidentified Senufo maker

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after 1950

Wood

Overall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

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

S.972.11

Geography

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

Period

20th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

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

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