About the Artwork
Helmet
between 19th and 20th century
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African
Makonde
Wood, wax, and fiber
Overall: 9 × 8 × 10 1/2 inches (22.9 × 20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, African Art Fund
76.25
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Alan Brandt, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1 (1976): p. 7 (ill.).
Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 21-May 29, 1977, no. 197 (ill.).
African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 83.
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Makonde, African, Helmet, between 19th and 20th century, wood, wax, and fiber. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, African Art Fund, 76.25.
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