CultureBamana peoples
Titles
- Staff Finial of a Female Figure
Date1850–1950
PlaceMali
MediumWood and nails
DimensionsHeight: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Dr. Gus K. Nicholson Collection
Object number91.1482
Non exposé
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Exhibition History"Sculpture of Black Africa: The Gus Nicholson Collection," Rice Museum, Rice University, Houston, December 12, 1980 - February 22, 1981 [1].
[1] Exhibition check list, no. 4 (on file).
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1900–1930
Wood, glass beads, cotton cloth, nails, coconut shell beads, and traces of indigo and tukula
91.1448.A,.B
1910–1925
Wood, paint, wool and cotton cloth, leather, yarn, sinew, nails, wire, and string
44.427
1913–1917
Wood, paint, feathers, horns, leather, buffalo fur, rawhide, cotton cloth, satin ribbon, tin, nails, and string
44.438
1910–1925
Wood, paint, cow suede, sheepskin, wool cloth and yarn, unspun wool, cotton cloth, paper, yucca strips, nails, chicken feathers, sparrow feathers, horsehair, and string
44.459
1940–1960
Wood, cowry shells, cotton cloth, sacrificial matter, plastic beads, nails, and traces of indigo
97.811.A,.B