About the Artwork
Headrest
no date
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African
Shona
Wood
Overall: 5 × 2 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches (12.7 × 6.7 × 14.9 cm)
Furniture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
1983.12
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Provenance
(James Willis Tribal Art, San Francisco, California, USA)
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 84.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Shona, African, Headrest, no date, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, 1983.12.
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