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Baule, African
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About the Artwork

Bead

between 19th and 20th century

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African

Baule

Gold filligree

Overall: 4 × 2 3/8 inches (10.2 × 6 cm)

Jewelry

African Art

Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art

77.10

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

Pitts Rivers. sold October 31, 1967, (Judith Small Gallery, New York, New York, USA). (Dr. and Mrs. Hilbert H. DeLawter)

1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 1.

Art of Black Africa. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. February 8-April 5, 1970, no. 41.

Sieber, R. African Textiles and Decorative Arts. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, M.J. DeYoung Memorial Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art. October 11, 1972 - December 2, 1973, no. 120 (ill.).

Beckham, B. Intellectual Digest. (May 1973): (col. ill.).

"Family Art Game," Detroit Free Press (May 18, 1986): p. 15 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, ed. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. Exh. cat., Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Princeton, 2019, pp. 2 (ill.) and 36 (fig. 1.16).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Baule, African, Bead, between 19th and 20th century, gold filligree. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 77.10.

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