CultureAkan peoples
Titles
- Linguist Staff Finial Representing a Termite Hill, Monkey, and Antelope
Date1945–1960
PlaceGhana/Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
MediumWood, gold leaf, and wire staples
DimensionsOverall: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.1268
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.
"African Gold from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston"
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 13 March 2004 - 19 September 2004
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Spring, Texas, 26 July 2008 - 2 November 2008
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, 17 September 20011 - 7 January, 2012
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1895–1905
Wood and gold leaf
97.1292.1,.2
Oqwa Pi (Abel Sánchez)
1920–1935
Tempera on paper board over pencil under-drawing
41.21
