Memorial Head | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 18th–19th century

Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 12 × 6 7/8 × 2 1/4 in. (30.48 × 17.46 × 5.72 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.513
Geography: Guinea Coast, Ghana
Culture: Akan
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Entwistle and Co. (Lance and Roberta), London, to May 5, 1981; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn., 1981–2004; 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), 290, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

"Entwistle advertisement," African Arts 14, no. 4 (1981), back cover ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Subject

heads (representations)

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