Artist
Unknown African
CultureAkan peoples
Titles
- Female figure from a drum ensemble
Date1900–1940
PlaceGhana, Africa
MediumWood, gold leaf, and paint
Dimensions17 5/8 × 6 × 4 inches (44.8 × 15.2 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.805
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
201M Blaffer Gallery
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
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, 18 February 2005 - 31 May 2005
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2 November 2005 - 26 March 2006
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Unknown Central and South American
1–800 AD
Gold
2010.1459.1,.2
