Artist
Unknown African
CultureAkan peoples
Titles
- Linguist Staff Finial Representing a Man with a Gun and a Sword
Date1895–1905
PlaceGhana, Africa
MediumWood and gold leaf
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 4 1/4 in. (23.5 × 7.9 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.1299
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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