Figure

(African)

Date

1875/1900

Medium

Carved and patinated wood, shell

Dimensions

19 7/8 x 5 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. ( 50.5 x 13.3 x 14 cm)

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Classification

Sculpture

Credit

Founders Society Purchase, with funds from L & R Entwistle and Co., Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, Abraham Borman Family Fund, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, General Endowment Fund, New Endowment Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, K. T. Keller Fund, Laura H. Murphy Fund, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, Barbara L. Scripps Fund, Edna Burian Skelton Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad H. Smith Memorial Fund, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund, and Matilda R. Wilson Fund.

Accession No.

82.49

Provenance

Formerly in the collection of: Leo Frobenius (1905/06 Congo expedition); Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg; Charles Ratton, Paris; Helen Rubenstein (Princess Gourielli), Paris & New York; Comte Jean-Jacques de Launoit, Brussels

Keywords

carved, patina, patinated, shell, statue, vessel, wood