Artist
Unknown African
CultureBaule peoples
Titles
- Comb
Dateno date
PlaceCôte d'Ivoire, Africa
MediumWood and gold leaf
Dimensions5 7/8 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (14.9 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number97.780
Not on view
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Department
African Art, Glassell CollectionObject Type
Exhibition History"African Gold From The Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston";
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, December 3, 2001 - March 3, 2002;
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, March 13, - September 19, 2004
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, 18 February 2005 - 31 May 2005
Museum of Fine Art Boston, Massachusetts, 2 November 2005 - 26 March 2006
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 26 May 2006 - 26 November 2006
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Spring, Texas, 26 July - 2 November 2008
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, 17 September 2011 - 7 January 2012
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Unknown African
1900–1950
Wood and traces of kaolin, a white clay
91.1520
