Sogoni Koun (Headdress)

CultureBamana peoples
Titles
  • Sogoni Koun (Headdress)
Date20th century
Made inMali
MediumWood and fiber with waterbuck hair
Dimensions15 7/16 × 7 5/8 × 10 9/16 in. (39.2 × 19.3 × 26.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frank Carroll
Object number2022.14
Not on view

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Department
African Art
Provenance[The Gallery of African Art, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by Harold S. Gray, Washington, D.C., 1970–2013; [Sotheby's, New York, Sale N08994, "African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art," May 16, 2013, Lot 72]; purchased by Frank Carroll, Houston, 2013, given to MFAH, 2022.

Exhibition HistoryMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, November 19, 2002 – July 6, 2003.

MFAH, permanent galleries, 2019–2021.

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Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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97.859
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1900–1925
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Wood, gold leaf, leather, animal hair
97.858.3