About the Artwork
Whistle
19th century
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African
Kongo
Wood and horn
Overall: 6 11/16 × 1 5/16 × 1 1/2 inches (17 × 3.3 × 3.8 cm) Including base: 7 7/8 × 1 13/16 × 1 13/16 inches (20 × 4.6 × 4.6 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
81.715
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Captain Boffard-Coquet
Stephan Chauvet. Linda Einfeld Sigel
1981-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. 60.
Chauvet, S. Musique Negre. Paris, 1929, pp. 72, 239 (fig 45).
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Kongo, African, Whistle, 19th century, wood and horn. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 81.715.
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