Details
Artist | Fon, African |
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Title |
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Date | late 19th century |
Medium | wood with brass tacks |
Dimensions | Overall: 11 5/8 × 12 1/16 × 11 3/4 inches (29.5 × 30.6 × 29.8 cm) |
Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert B. Jacobs and the Friends of African and African American Art |
Accession Number | 2000.13 |
Department | Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas |
On View | African N1BB, Level 1 (see map) |
Provenance
(Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, USA);
(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, USA);
George Schwelinger (Birmingham, Michigan, USA).
(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, USA);
2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, USA);
George Schwelinger (Birmingham, Michigan, USA).
(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, USA);
2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. April 21-May 29, 1977, 1977, p. 83, no. 83.