Buffalo Figure Headrest
Shona people, Zambesi River area, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
19th century
Wood
Overall: 5 7/8 in. (14.923 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
S.972.12
Geography/Culture
Africa, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Furniture: Headrest
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
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.
Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 1985.
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, ill. p. 23.
Provenance
Pitts River Museum, Farnham and Dorset, England (Webster Collection, #6851, probably William Downing Webster (1868-1913) ), collected in 1899; Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1972.
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