Shrine piece / Headdress (a-Tshol / Ngach / Elek)

late 19th–early 20th century

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 18 × 3 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (45.72 × 8.573 × 24.13 cm)
base: 1 × 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (2.54 × 14.923 × 14.923 cm)
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
Accession Number: 2010.3.2
Geography: Guinea, or Guinea-Bissau
Culture: Baga, Nalu, Pukar, or Bulungits
Period: 19th–20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Collected by Emil Storrer in the 1950's
Sold to a private collector in Switzerland, unknown date–2007
Galerie Patrick Frolich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008
Purchased by Guy van Rijn from Galerie Patrick Frolich during the Parcours des Monde in Paris, September 10–14, 2008
Purchased by Yale University Art Gallery in 2010 from Guy van Rijn

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed 2012), 6, ill

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Additional information

Object/Work type

headdress, headgear

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