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Palm Wine Cup

19th century

Wood

5 1/2 × 4 × 4 in. (13.97 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm)
Gift of James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
1976.129.3
Geography: 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Kuba
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Containers - Wood
Provenance: 

Acquired by Leo Frobenius during his Kongo expedition, 1904-1906. Dr. Ralph Linton, Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale, unknown date–1953; James M. Osborn (1906-1976), New Haven, Conn.; donated to Yale University Art Gallery for the Linton Collection of African Art

Bibliography: 

The Linton Collection of African Sculpture, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1954), no. 110.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.