Artist
Unknown African
CultureNgbaka peoples
Titles
- Pipe with Human Head, Boka
- Pipe (boka) with Human Head
Date1900–1940
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
MediumWood, silver, copper, iron, cotton cloth, glass beads, and paint
DimensionsOverall: 17 × 1 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (43.2 × 3.8 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Dr. Gus K. Nicholson Collection
Object number91.1452
Not on view
Explore Further
Department
African ArtObject Type
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. 98 (on file).
“The Private Eye: Selected Works from Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 11, 1989-August 13, 1989.
EXHIBITED at MFAH, Sterling Gallery, November 4, 1998-present PERMANENT COLLECTION INSTALLATION
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.
Unknown African
1875–1925
Ivory, iron, glass beads, brass bells, cotton cloth, wood, and cane
91.1551
Unknown African
1900–1950
Cotton cloth, flannel, glass beads, raffia cloth, indigo dye, and cane (?)
97.341
Unknown African
1900–1950
Raffia cloth, glass beads, cowry shells, raffia, wood, and paint
73.89
Unknown African
1865–1935
Wood, kaolin, paint, wire, cotton string, and trade cloth
90.401
Unknown North American
1900–1945
Painted wood, leather, cloth, feathers, evergreen twigs, beads, string
44.415
Unknown African
1900–1940
Glass and jasper beads, cotton cloth, raffia cloth, cane, and iron
98.240
Unknown African
1900–1950
Wood, glass beads, cotton cloth, coconut shell beads, and traces of indigo and tukula
91.1447.A-.C