Lidded Box | Yale University Art Gallery

late 19th century

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 15 × 8 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (38.1 × 21.59 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
Accession Number: 1976.129.2a-b
Geography: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Culture: Kuba
Period: 19th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Acquired by Leo Frobenius (1873–1938), Germany, during his Kongo-Kasia Expedition, 1904–1906 (Frobenius Institute Register Number KBA 04583). Dr. Ralph Linton (1893–1953), New Haven, Conn., by 1953 [see note 1]; by descent to his wife, Adelin Hohlfield Linton (1899–1977) New Haven, Conn.; sold to Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn (1905–1968) and James Marshall Osborn (1906–1976), New Haven, Conn., 1954; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1976

Note 1: Ralph Linton was the Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale from 1946 until his death in 1953.

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. 226

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Object/Work type

boxes (containers), lids

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