Head Fragment of the Great Damba, Patroness of Women

Unidentified Baga maker

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19th century

Wood

Overall: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall

S.973.320

Geography

Place Made: Guinea, Western Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Exhibition History

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

Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.

Rotunday, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 16-October 1974.

Provenance

Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005); given to present collection, 1973.

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