Artist
Unknown African
CultureAkan peoples
Titles
- Fly Whisk
Date1925–1935
PlaceGhana/Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
MediumHorsehair, wood, gold leaf, red cloth, and string
Dimensions40 × 4 inches (101.6 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.851
Not on view
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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"
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, March 13, - September 19, 2004
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Spring, Texas, 26 July 2008 - 2 November 2008
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, 17 September 2011 - 7 January 2012
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Unknown African
1945–1955
Horsehair, wood, gold leaf, red cloth, string
97.870
