About the Artwork
Soul Washers Badge
20th century
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African
Asante
Hammered gold
Overall: 5/16 × 4 7/8 inches (0.8 × 12.4 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Margaret H. Demant
1990.19
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1990-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. 23.
Bulletin of the DIA 66, no. 2/3, 1990, p 47, fig 16, (ill).
Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Leadership and Status Objects.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 44 (fig. 2.24).
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Asante, African, Soul Washers Badge, 20th century, hammered gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Margaret H. Demant, 1990.19.
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