Mace

19th to mid-20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood

Dimensions

15 × 4 × 3 in. (38.1 × 10.16 × 7.62 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art. Accepted By Directors Letter 12/30/1959

Accession Number

1959.72.4

Geography

Liberia

Culture

Mano

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Tools and Equipment

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Provenance
Dr. George Way Harley (1894–1966) Ganta, Liberia, by 1950 [see note 1]; Dr. Ralph Linton (1893–1953), by 1953 [see note 2]; by descent to his wife, Adelin Hohlfield Linton (1899–1977); sold to Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn (1905–1968) and James Marshall Osborn (1906–1976), 1954; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1959

Note 1: George Way Harley, M.D. Yale University, 1923, was an American Methodist Medical Missionary who was the founder and superintendent of Ganta Mission, Ganta, Liberia between 1926–1960. He was a Research Associate in Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University between 1932–1962 and he acquired many artworks for institutions and private collectors during his time.

Note 2: Ralph Linton was the Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale from 1946 until his death in 1953.He paid Harley for unspecified objects in a letter dated May 30, 1952 (for letter see curitorial object file)

Bibliography
  • Ralph Linton, The Linton Collection of African Sculpture: An Exhibition, March 13 through April 18, 1954, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1954), no. 16
  • George W. Harley, Masks as Agents of Social Control in Northeast Liberia (Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, 1950), xiii, 45, no. d, pl. II, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
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Object/Work type

maces

Subject

faces (animal or human component)

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