Staff Finial (Sono)

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

On view, 1st floor, African Art
Medium

Copper alloy

Dimensions

7 7/8 × 5 11/16 × 4 1/2 in. (20 × 14.5 × 11.5 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.51.11

Geography

Guinea Coast, Guinea-Bissau, or Guinea

Culture

Biafada, Badyara, Maninka, Fulbe

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Timepieces

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Collected by Maurice & Jacqueline Nicaud, Paris, near Bouake, Ivory Coast, 1954. Gaston de Havenon, New York, to April 26, 1983;Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn 1983–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 87, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222, 225, ill
  • Susan Vogel and Jerry L. Thompson, Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1990), 136, fig. 64
  • Ezio Bassani, "Sono from Guinea Bissau," African Arts 12, no. 4 (1979), 47, fig. 6
  • Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the De Havenon Collection, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 1971), fig. 147
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

staffs (walking sticks)

Subject

animals equestrians

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