CultureAkan peoples
Titles
- Necklace
Date1900–1915
PlaceGhana/ivory Coast, Africa
MediumGold
Dimensions16 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (41.3 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.981
Non exposé
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Department
African Art, Glassell CollectionObject Type
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "The Private Eye: Selected Works from Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston" from June 10, 1989 through August 13, 1989 at the MFAH.
Exhibited: Unveiling ceremony of a mural by John Biggers in the lobby of the Jesse H. Jones School of Business Building, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, on September 22, 1999 (LN:99.15).
"African Gold From The Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston"; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, December 3, 2001 - March 3, 2002
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, March 13, - September 19, 2004
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Spring, Texas, 26 July - 2 November 2008
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, 17 September 2011 - 7 January 2012
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Late 19th–early 20th century
Gold with granulation, gold beads, and red cord
2004.2316
